Journal article : Review
Vitamin D review: the low hanging fruit for human health
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Vitamin D is an important hormone that is known for the regulation of calcium and phosphate metabolism. Vitamin D deficiency leads to rickets in children and osteoporosis in adults leading to poor bone mineralisation and can also lead to serious dental complications in the same population. Recent studies have shown vitamin D to work as a hormone needed not only in bone and teeth but also in other body organs from intrauterine life up to old age. It has been demonstrated that Vitamin D has various effects on biological processes that deal with cell growth, differentiation, cell death, immune regulation, DNA stability, and neuronal growth. Despite being readily formed in the body through the intervention of the sun, patients are still found to have low vitamin D levels. We review studies done to show how vitamin D works.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1155/2021/6335681
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- Publisher:
- Hindawi
- Journal:
- Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2021
- Article number:
- 6335681
- Publication date:
- 2021-12-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-11-06
- DOI:
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2090-0732
- ISSN:
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2090-0724
- Pmid:
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34900350
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English
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Review
- Pubs id:
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1230714
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pubs:1230714
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2023-06-21
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- Mungai et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- Copyright © 2021 Lucy N. W. Mungai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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