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Recently, the role of vitamin D in immunomodulation has been studied and shown to be significantly associated with immune function. A causal relationship exists between vitamin D and innate and...
Recent studies have demonstrated the association between allergic diseases and vitamin D deficiency. In addition to its classical role in calcium homeostasis, vitamin D has been known for its effect...
Epidemiologic evidence suggests that vitamin D status, as assessed by serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, is associated with increased risk for diabetes, and that adequate intake of vitamin D may prevent...
Vitamin D deficiency rickets became quite rare now-a-days and also more rare in incidence complicated by hypervitaminosis A which was found at Pusan Childrens Charity Hospital. This patient was 1...
Vitamin D deficiency has been common health problem in many countries and it is now known that vitamin D plays a role in many organs and tissues throughout the body...
Vitamin D deficiency cause rickets, metabolic disorder of growing bone resulting in bony deformities. Rickets is characterized by formation of collagen and osteoid with defective mineralization. We had experienced ??severe...
Vitamin D is an important secosteroid hormone in skeletal and non-skeletal systems. Vitamin D has relevance to muscle and immune function, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cancer, and pregnancy because vitamin D...
Vitamin D deficiency and asthma are common public health problems worldwide. Recently, newer physiologic functions for vitamin D have been identified. Several studies suggest vitamin D plays a vital and...
Knowledge regarding the physiological role and dietary requirements of vitamin D has dramatically expanded over the past several decades. The "new" vitamin D is not only a mediator of calcium...
Vitamin D deficiency is a global health problem that increases risk for metabolic bone diseases in children and adults as well as many chronic illnesses including autoimmune diseases, type 2...
The discovery and synthesis of vitamin D and the elucidation of the role of sunlight in the activation of the vitamin D precursors changed the syndromes of rickets from a...
Vitamin D affects not only musculoskeletal health but also a range of nonskeletal diseases such as cancer, obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Vitamin D deficiency and...
Vitamin D, a free sunshine vitamin available for mankind from nature, is capable to avert many health-related critical circumstances. Vitamin D is no more regarded as a nutrient involved in...
Vitamins and their metabolites are essential for many physiological processes including immune response. In addition to regulating calcium homeostasis, vitamin D exerts various effects on cells of the immune system,...
Recent studies suggest that vitamin D is related to allergic rhinitis (AR). In this review, we first discuss the physiology and metabolism of vitamin D, then we review the function...
Vitamin D deficiency is now recognized as a pandemic with more than half of the world's population currently at risk. Traditionally, vitamin D has been associated primarily with bone and...