The Vitamin D Deficiency Pandemic: Approaches for Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention

Overview

Journal Rev Endocr Metab Disord

Publisher Springer

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 2017 May 19

PMID 28516265

Citations 512

Authors

Michael F Holick

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Abstract

Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency is a global health issue that afflicts more than one billion children and adults worldwide. The consequences of vitamin D deficiency cannot be under estimated. There has been an association of vitamin D deficiency with a myriad of acute and chronic illnesses including preeclampsia, childhood dental caries, periodontitis, autoimmune disorders, infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease, deadly cancers, type 2 diabetes and neurological disorders. This review is to put into perspective the controversy surrounding the definition for vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency as well as providing guidance for how to treat and prevent vitamin D deficiency.

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