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Once foods in the United States were fortified with vitamin D, rickets appeared to have been conquered, and many considered major health problems from vitamin D deficiency resolved. But vitamin D deficiency is common. This review considers the role of vitamin D in skeletal and nonskeletal health and suggests strategies for the prevention and treatment ...
Michael F Holick
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Vitamin D (calciferol) has been recognized for almost 100 years as being essential for bone health, but also plays a variety of roles across the body. It's deficiency is becoming an increasingly important public health issue, though the definition of deficiency itself has become controversial.
Anju Virmani
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Spread of vitamin D deficiency in children of various ages has not been studied in the Russian Federation. Numerous studies of foreign authors indicate high importance of this issue in many regions of the world, including southern territories with high ...
E. A. Potrokhova +5 more
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Vitamin D deficiency in northern Taiwan: a community-based cohort study
Background Vitamin D deficiency has become an important public health problem, however few studies have been conducted in subtropical countries, and the predictors of vitamin D deficiency in people with healthy renal function are unclear.
Ming-Jse Lee +5 more
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Prevalence of vitamin D level disorders in therapeutic patients and features of their correction
Objective: to study the prevalence of vitamin D level disorders in therapeutic patients and the features of their correction. Materials and methods: 322 patients who applied for medical help in the field of therapy («rheumatology» and «cardiology») were ...
L. N. Eliseeva +3 more
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Background: Vitamin D deficiency is common in the general population worldwide, and the prevalence and severity of vitamin D deficiency increase in critically ill patients.
Kuo-Wei Chen +19 more
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Background Vitamin D deficiency causes the bone hypomineralization disorder osteomalacia in humans and is associated with many non-skeletal disorders. We aim to estimate the global and regional prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in people aged 1 year or ...
A. Cui +5 more
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Guidelines for Preventing and Treating Vitamin D Deficiency: A 2023 Update in Poland
Introduction: All epidemiological studies suggest that vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among the Polish general population. Since vitamin D deficiency was shown to be among the risk factors for many diseases and for all-cause mortality, concern about ...
P. Płudowski +33 more
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Vitamin D deficiency has a high worldwide prevalence, but actions to improve this public health problem are challenged by the heterogeneity of nutritional and clinical vitamin D guidelines, with respect to the diagnosis and treatment of vitamin D ...
P. Płudowski +9 more
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