Vitamin D metabolizing enzymes and vitamin D receptors are present in many cell types
including various immune cells such as antigen-presenting-cells, T cells, B cells and …

Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, has received a lot of attention recently as a result of a
meteoric rise in the number of publications showing that vitamin D plays a crucial role in a …

Many studies have been published describing the vitamin D status in different populations,
most of them in individual countries. Vitamin D status is assessed by measuring 25 …

Vitamin D status and the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency have been
addressed in many studies covering all continents. Vitamin D deficiency, defined as a serum …

This review describes the vitamin D status in different regions of the world with the objective
of understanding the scope of hypovitaminosis D and the factors related to its prevalence …

Modest and even severe vitamin D deficiency is widely prevalent around the world. There is
consensus that a good vitamin D status is necessary for bone and general health. Similarly …

The hypothesis that adequate vitamin D nutrition can contribute to the prevention of multiple
sclerosis (MS) was originally proposed to explain the geographical distribution of MS, but …

Osteosarcoma incidence rates in the United States peak in adolescence and in the elderly.
The international patterns of osteosarcoma incidence in children have been described …

The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency varies, with the groups at greatest risk including
housebound, community‐dwelling older and/or disabled people, those in residential care …

Rationale: Maternal vitamin D intake during pregnancy has been inversely associated with
asthma symptoms in early childhood. However, no study has examined the relationship …