Background: Vitamin D is essential for maintaining bone health and growth throughout life. Vitamin D deficiency not only leads to bone metabolic diseases in children and adults but may increase the risk of many chronic diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of vitamin ...
In the past few years a growing interest in vitamin D can be observed in the lay and biomedical literature due to findings demonstrating a low vitamin D status in the population. In addition to its importance for the regulation of calcium and phosphorus homeostasis recent epidemiologic studies hav...
The goal of screening for vitamin D deficiency would be to identify and treat it before associated adverse clinical outcomes occur. Total 25(OH)D level is currently considered the best marker of vitamin D status.4,19 A variety of assays can be used to measure 25(OH)D levels; however, ...
Vitamin D supplementation is used for treatment of vitamin D−deficient states in adults and children that can occur due to insufficient dietary sources, insufficient sunshine, increased age, and weight loss surgery. Data also support use in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Use of hi...
Multivariable Association of Vitamin D Levels and Treatment with Test Results Positive for COVID-19 Among Individuals With No Active Vitamin D Treatment Before COVID-19 Test eTable 4. Multivariable Association of Vitamin D Levels and Treatment with Test Results Positive for COVID-19 Among Individual...
[1]. As vitamin D supplements may be beneficial to mother and child during pregnancy [2], maintenance of adequate vitamin D status remains important for women during young adulthood. Vitamin D supplementation has also been shown to be protective against respiratory infections [3] and may reduce ...
The study, led by QBI researcher Professor John McGrath and involving Dr Henning Tiemeier from the Erasmus Medical Centre in The Netherlands, found that pregnant women with low vitamin D levels at 20 weeks' gestation were more likely to have a child withautistic traitsby the age of six. ...
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Studies performed on Indian children to assess vitamin-D status have been on small sample sizes, limited to specific geographical locations and used non-standard methods to measure 25(OH)D3. This multicentre study assessed 25(OH)D3 concentrations from dr
Vitamin D is a precursor of the steroid hormone calcitriol that is crucial for bone and mineral metabolism. Both the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in the general population and the identification of the vitamin D receptor in the heart and blood vessels raised interest in the potential ...