Vitamin D insufficiency and skeletal development in utero

Vitamin D insufficiency.

Vitamin D deficiency, which classically manifests as bone disease (either rickets or osteomalacia), is characterized by impaired bone mineralization. More recently, the term vitamin D insufficiency has been used to describe low levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D that may be associated with other disease outcomes. Reliance on a single cutoff value to define vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency...

Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency.

30–35 ng/ml [6]. Priemel et al. [7], in their autopsy study, found that about 40% of bone samples from individuals with serum 25-OHD of 20–32 ng/ml still had elevated osteoid volumes typical for vitamin D deficiency. However, no osteomalacia was found in samples taken from individuals with serum levels higher than 32 ng/ml. In a meta-analysis, Bischoff-Ferrari and colleagues [8] showed that a s...

Vitamin D-insufficiency

BACKGROUND Vitamin D insufficiency is increasingly recognized as an important risk factor in the pathogenesis of falls and fractures and may increase the risk of other diseases. The aim of this study was to obtain information about the vitamin D supply from a representative cohort of the German population.   METHODS 264 General practitioners participated in the DeViD-Trial (D-Vitamin in Deut...

Vitamin D insufficiency in south-east Queensland.

Vitamin D insufficiency in southern Arizona.

BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency has been observed among populations in the northern United States. However, data on the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in areas of high sun exposure, such as Arizona, are limited. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to analyze serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations in residents of southern Arizona and to evaluate predictors ...