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 deficiency can lead to musculoskeletal diseases such as rickets and
osteomalacia, but vitamin D supplementation may also prevent extraskeletal diseases such …

Vitamin D deficiency is now being recognized as one of the most common medical
conditions worldwide. The consequences of vitamin D deficiency include poor bone …

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble hormone that traditionally has been linked to bone health.
Recently, its involvement has been extended to other (extra-skeletal) disease areas, such as …

Vitamin D deficiency has been identified as a common metabolic/endocrine abnormality.
Despite known dietary sources of vitamin D and the role of sunlight in its production, much of …

Background Vitamin D is a nutrient long considered as essential for skeletal health but is
now attracting interest from medical and nutritional communities as knowledge emerges of …

Vitamin D deficiency is evident in many parts of the globe, even in the sunnier regions, for a
variety of reasons. Such deficiency contributes to risk of metabolic bone disease as well as …

The plethora of vitamin D studies over the recent years highlight the pleomorphic effects of
vitamin D outside its conventional role in calcium and bone homeostasis. Vitamin D …

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 …

Vitamin D, a fat-soluble prohormone, is endogenously synthesized in response to sunlight or
taken from dietary supplements. Since vitamin D receptors are present in most tissues and …