Vitamin D plays a vital role in regulating calcium and phosphate metabolism and
maintaining bone health. A state of prolonged or profound vitamin D deficiency (VDD) can …

Vitamin D plays a key role in bone metabolism. The link between vitamin D deficiency and
rickets is well understood. However, subclinical vitamin D deficiency may also be …

Vitamin D is a hormone sequentially produced at different body sites, and which plays a
significant role in human health, particularly bone health. However, other roles are …

Some of the clinically significant causes of vitamin D deficiency in children are secondary to
inadequate dietary intake, limited sun exposure, disease states causing malabsorption …

Vitamin D is essential for calcium absorption and for maintaining bone health in the pediatric
population. Vitamin D deficiency may develop from nutritional deficiencies, malabsorption …

Background: Vitamin D supplementation is known to both prevent and treat rickets, a
disease of hypomineralized bone. Childhood is a period of great bone development and …

Knowledge regarding the physiological role and dietary requirements of vitamin D has
dramatically expanded over the past several decades. The “new” vitamin D is not only a …

The classical clinical consequence of vitamin D deficiency is osteomalacia, presenting as
rickets in children. This remains a common problem in parts of the Middle East and the …

Vitamin D is a key hormone in the regulation of calcium and phosphorus metabolism and
plays a pivotal role in bone health, particularly during pediatric age when nutritional rickets …

Although vitamin D has been reported to have pleiotropic effects including effects on the
immune system and on cancer progression, the principal action of vitamin D is the …