Vitamin D: Deficiency, Sufficiency and Toxicity

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 deficiency, though common and known, still faces several challenges among the medical community in terms of proper diagnosis and correction. In this review, the different levels of vitamin D and its clinical implications are highlighted. Recommendations and consensuses for the appropriate dose and duration for each vitamin D status are also emphasized.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Nutrients

• Publication date

  2013-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.3390/nu5093605PMID 24067388PMCID 3798924
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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