Similarly, meeting the recommended daily intake (RDI) of vitamin D (600IU) is protective against HRAPs with an ORadjof 0.78 (95% CI: 0.62-0.99). This study suggests that adequate vitamin D supplementation reduces the occurrence of colorectal polyps in high-latitude locations....
The correct course of vitamin D supplementation will be decided in relation to the age of the individual, their medical history and any health conditions they may be experiencing. Supplementation methods to treat vitamin D deficiency may include:8 Oral vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) in the form of ...
Vitamin D is deficient in maternal milk; therefore, breastfed infants may require supplementation. Use of excessive amounts of Vitamin D in nursing mothers may result in hypercalcemia in infants. Doses of Vitamin D3 in excess of 10 µg daily should not be administered daily to nursing women...
Researchers at the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Canada and the University of Exeter in the UK explored the relationship between vitamin D supplementation and dementia in more than 12,388 participants of the US NationalAlzheimer’sCoordinating Center, who had a mean age of ...
Vitamin D supplementation can prevent and cure nutritional rickets in infants and children. Preclinical and observational data suggest that the vitamin D endocrine system has a wide spectrum of skeletal and extra-skeletal activities. There is consensus that severe vitamin D deficiency (serum 25-hydroxyv...
November second has been declared Vitamin D Day by the Vitamin D Council, Grassroots Health, and the Vitamin D Society. This has been done to promote the understanding of vitamin D and to encourage the use of supplementation during the winter months in the northern hemisphere. Also, to use ...
Serum 25(OH)D concentrations, though not vitamin D supplementation40, have been associated with a lower overall risk of these conditions41, and some also reported effect modification by fetal sex, with stronger benefits among males42. Accordingly, our observed positive associations for vitamin D ...
who reported evidence of reduced overall mortality in individuals who took part in 18 randomized clinical trials of vitamin D supplementation (Autier and Gandini, 2007). There are dietary sources of vitamin D (predominantly oily fish): it is postulated that the vitamin D originally derives ...
Two significant sources of vitamin D exist in our society: (1) photoisomerization of 7-dehydrocholecalciferol by UVB light in the skin to generate vitamin D3; and (2) diet and dietary supplementation with either vitamin D3 or D2. Both cholecalciferol and ergocalciferol are hydroxylated by a ...
FEATURE NEWS The vitamin D-lemma A vociferous debate about vitamin-D supplementation reveals the difficulty of distilling strong advice from weak evidence. BY AMY MAXMEN With his skull-and-crossbones bow tie tied tight, Clifford Rosen strides to the podium at the Metropoli- tan Bone Club, a ...