"Snags" connected with establishing the vitamin D

Issues in establishing vitamin D recommendations for infants and children.

In 1963, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition recommended 400 IU of vitamin D per day for all infants and children. After the late 1970s, this became an inconsistent recommendation, particularly for breast-feeding infants. In 2003, however, the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended 200 IU/d vitamin D for all infants and children. This was ...

The effect of vitamin D supplementation on the size of uterine leiomyoma in women with vitamin D deficiency

TRIENNIAL GROWTH SYMPOSIUM: Vitamin D - Establishing the basics to dispel the hype1,2

*Department of Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison 53706; †National Center of Disciplinary Research in Physiology and Animal Improvement (CENID-Fisiología), Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Querétaro, México; ‡DSM Nutritional Products, North America, Animal Nutrition and Health, Parsippany, NJ 07054; and §DSM Nutritional Pro...

Triennial Growth Symposium: Vitamin D--establishing the basics to dispel the hype.

We now understand that vitamin D is the starting material of an endocrine system primarily devoted to the regulation of serum calcium, serum phosphorus and bone. Vitamin D is normally produced in skin by a photochemical reaction of 7-dehydrocholesterol. It is subsequently converted in the liver to a circulating form (25-hydroxyvitamin D3) that is then converted by the kidney to a hormonal form,...

Vitamin D Deficiency is Associated with the Metabolic Syndrome in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes

Background and Objectives: There is convincing evidence that subjects concomitantly affected by type 2 diabetes (T2D) and metabolic syndrome (MeS) are at greater risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Many metabolic derangements in T2D might be attributed to poor vitamin D status. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations among vitamin D status, MeS and glycemic status in su...