Clinical practice in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of vitamin D deficiency: a central and eastern European expert consensus statement

P Pludowski, I Takacs, M Boyanov, Z Belaya… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

The safe and effective use of plant-based diets with guidelines for health professionals

WJ Craig, AR Mangels, U Fresán, K Marsh, FL Miles… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant-based diets, defined here as including both vegan and lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets, are
growing in popularity throughout the Western world for various reasons, including concerns …

Perspective: Vitamin D deficiency and COVID‐19 severity–plausibly linked by latitude, ethnicity, impacts on cytokines, ACE2 and thrombosis

JM Rhodes, S Subramanian, E Laird… - Journal of internal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background SARS‐CoV‐2 coronavirus infection ranges from asymptomatic through to fatal
COVID‐19 characterized by a 'cytokine storm'and lung failure. Vitamin D deficiency has …

Vitamin D sources, metabolism, and deficiency: available compounds and guidelines for its treatment

LJ Dominguez, M Farruggia, N Veronese… - Metabolites, 2021 - mdpi.com
Studies on vitamin/hormone D deficiency have received a vast amount of attention in recent
years, particularly concerning recommendations, guidelines, and treatments. Moreover …

Vitamin D: dosing, levels, form, and route of administration: does one approach fit all?

JP Bilezikian, AM Formenti, RA Adler, N Binkley… - Reviews in Endocrine …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The 4th International Conference on Controversies in Vitamin D was held as a
virtual meeting in September, 2020, gathering together leading international scientific and …

Global prevalence and disease burden of vitamin D deficiency: a roadmap for action in low‐and middle‐income countries

DE Roth, SA Abrams, J Aloia, G Bergeron… - 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Vitamin D is an essential nutrient for bone health and may influence the risks of respiratory
illness, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and chronic diseases of adulthood. Because many …

New aspects of vitamin D metabolism and action—Addressing the skin as source and target

D Bikle, S Christakos - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2020 - nature.com
Vitamin D has a key role in stimulating calcium absorption from the gut and promoting
skeletal health, as well as many other important physiological functions. Vitamin D is …

Association between vitamin D supplementation and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Zhang, F Fang, J Tang, L Jia, Y Feng, P Xu… - bmj, 2019 - bmj.com
Objective To investigate whether vitamin D supplementation is associated with lower
mortality in adults. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled …

Global consensus recommendations on prevention and management of nutritional rickets

CF Munns, N Shaw, M Kiely, BL Specker… - The Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background: Vitamin D and calcium deficiencies are common worldwide, causing nutritional
rickets and osteomalacia, which have a major impact on health, growth, and development of …

[HTML][HTML] Vitamin D testing and treatment: a narrative review of current evidence

S Pilz, A Zittermann, C Trummer… - Endocrine …, 2019 - ec.bioscientifica.com
Vitamin D testing and treatment is a subject of controversial scientific discussions, and it is
challenging to navigate through the expanding vitamin D literature with heterogeneous and …