Vitamin D supplementation can prevent and cure nutritional rickets in infants and children.
Preclinical and observational data suggest that the vitamin D endocrine system has a wide …

Background: The role of vitamin D in people who are at risk for type 2 diabetes remains
unclear. Purpose: To evaluate whether administration of vitamin D decreases risk for …

Vitamin D is a steroid hormone classically involved in the calcium metabolism and bone
homeostasis. Recently, new and interesting aspects of vitamin D metabolism has been …

Abstract Purpose of Review Evidence from observational studies suggests that obesity is
associated with low vitamin D. As both obesity and hypovitaminosis D present an alarmingly …

Abstract The 6th International Conference,“Controversies in Vitamin D,” was convened to
discuss controversial topics, such as vitamin D metabolism, assessment, actions, and …

BACKGROUND While observational studies have shown an association between vitamin D
insufficiency and diabetes, it is unclear whether intervention with vitamin D supplements can …

Vitamin D production in the skin under the influence of sunlight (UVB) is maximized at levels
of sunlight exposure that do not burn the skin. Further metabolism of vitamin D to its major …

Importance In the Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL), the effects of randomized vitamin D
supplementation (cholecalciferol), 2000 IU/d, reduced the risk of several health outcomes …

Observational studies classically find an inverse relationship between human plasma 25-
hydroxyvitamin D concentration and obesity. However, interventional and genetic studies …

The interest in vitamin D continues unabated with thousands of publications contributing to a
vast and growing literature each year. It is widely recognized that the vitamin D receptor …