Vitamin D: current status and perspectives
Vitamin D: current status and perspectives
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DOI:
10.1515/cclm.2009.036
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发表时间:
2009-02-01
影响因子:
6.8
通讯作者:
Souberbielle, Jean-Claude
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作者:
Cavalier, Etienne;Delanaye, Pierre;Souberbielle, Jean-Claude
The role of vitamin D in maintaining bone health has been known for decades. Recently, however, the discovery that many tissues expressed the vitamin D receptor and were able to transform the 25-OH vitamin D into its most active metabolite, 1,25-(OH)(2) vitamin D, has led to a very promising future for this "old'' molecule. Indeed, observational studies, and more and more interventional studies, are raising the importance of a significant vitamin D supplementation for not-only skeletal benefits. Among them, 25-OH vitamin D has been found to play an important role in prevention of cancers, auto-immune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and infections. Vitamin D deficiency, defined as serum 25-OH vitamin D levels < 30 ng/mL, is very common in our population. The cost/benefit ratio and some recently published studies are clearly now in favor of a controlled and efficient vitamin D supplementation in these patients presenting a 25-OH vitamin D level < 30 ng/mL. More attention should also be focused on pregnant and lactating women, as well as children and adolescents.