Vitamin D review: the low hanging fruit for human health
<p>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....
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2021
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| author | Mungai, LNW Mohammed, Z Maina, M Anjumanara, O |
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| description | <p>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.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6a975c4f-b033-412c-83a9-2214472620b32023-08-30T09:12:41ZVitamin D review: the low hanging fruit for human healthJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6a975c4f-b033-412c-83a9-2214472620b3EnglishSymplectic ElementsHindawi 2021Mungai, LNWMohammed, ZMaina, MAnjumanara, O<p>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.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Mungai, LNW Mohammed, Z Maina, M Anjumanara, O Vitamin D review: the low hanging fruit for human health |
| title | Vitamin D review: the low hanging fruit for human health |
| title_full | Vitamin D review: the low hanging fruit for human health |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Vitamin D review: the low hanging fruit for human health |
| title_short | Vitamin D review: the low hanging fruit for human health |
| title_sort | vitamin d review the low hanging fruit for human health |
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