Vitamin D and Human Health

Vitamin D research has expanded greatly over the last 10 years, with a more than two-fold increase in annual publications listed in Pubmed with the key word 'vitamin D' from 1675 in 2005 to 3953 in 2014. Part of this increase is due to research showing that vitamin D deficiency is associat...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
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Summary:Vitamin D research has expanded greatly over the last 10 years, with a more than two-fold increase in annual publications listed in Pubmed with the key word 'vitamin D' from 1675 in 2005 to 3953 in 2014. Part of this increase is due to research showing that vitamin D deficiency is associated with a wide range of diseases and health outcomes. Until the 1980s, the primary focus of vitamin D research (in combination with calcium supplementation) was on bone diseases. Since then, observational studies have linked vitamin D deficiency with increased risk of many diseases: both acute and chronic. This book contains publications on several of these disease groups linked to vitamin D deficiency.
Item Description:Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (476 p.)
ISBN:9783038420569
9783038420576