Background: Maintaining a normal vitamin D status is important for both skeletal and extra-
skeletal health. Recent data show that vitamin D deficiency is endemic in women residing in …

Objective: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) and vitamin D insufficiency (VDI) are significant health
problems all over the world. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of VDD …

Background Ongoing studies in the Middle East, particularly in the Arabian Gulf countries,
have reported extremely low levels of serum vitamin D across age and gender. In Kuwait …

Background: Despite living in a sunny country, hypovitaminosis D is common in women of
reproductive age in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Aims and objectives: To establish …

Background: Vitamin D is an essential nutrient for bone growth, mineralization, and other
metabolic processes in the human body. Hence, insufficiency or deficiency of this vitamin …

Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide public health problem. Low vitamin D and its
consequences among children and adolescents could be considered as one of the most …

Objective: Vitamin D deficiency is an unrecognized epidemic and a common health problem
worldwide. This study was conducted to evaluate the vitamin D status in children living in …

Objective: Despite the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in adults worldwide, not many
studies have evaluated the condition in adolescents. The present study was therefore …

Background: Vitamin D deficiency is a global health problem in children. The vitamin D
status of children and adolescents has not been evaluated in Bahrain. Aims: This cross …

Aims: This study was done to assess the vitamin D status in school children between the age
of 8–14 years attending the government schools in rural and urban areas of Assam in …