This article aims to alert the medical community and public health authorities to
accumulating evidence on health benefits from sun exposure, which suggests that …

Public health authorities in the United States are recommending that men, women and
children reduce their exposure to sunlight, based on concerns that this exposure will …

Abstract The Rotterdam Study is a prospective cohort study ongoing since 1990 in the city of
Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The study targets cardiovascular, endocrine, hepatic …

Aims Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with some disorders including
cardiovascular diseases. Dyslipidemia is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases …

The deficiency of vitamin D is prevalent all over the world. Studies have shown that vitamin
D may play an important role in the development of obesity. The current study was …

Objective To evaluate the association between vitamin D (VD) deficiency and risk factors for
metabolic syndrome (MetS) in postmenopausal women. Study design Observational, cross …

Although several observational studies have investigated the relationship between vitamin
D deficiency and risk of central obesity, the results were inconsistent. We performed a dose …

Objective—Prevalence of vitamin D (VD) deficiency and its association with the risk of
cardiovascular disease prompted us to evaluate the effect of VD status on lipid metabolism …

Objectives: Despite long hours of sunlight in Qatar and other regions of the Middle East,
vitamin D deficiency has been rising. In parallel, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome has …

The dietary reference values for Vitamin D were set primarily considering its role in bone
health, but with the discovery of Vitamin D receptors throughout body tissues, new links with …