Vitamin D deficiency in childhood is a re-emerging public health problem. Epidemiological studies have shown that it can lead to rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults and may play a role in a variety of extraskeletal disorders, including asthma, type 1 diabetes, infectious and cardiovascular diseases and cancer (1). Vitamin D deficiency is identified by measuring serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels and studies of levels between parents and their offspring, and among siblings, suggests the family environment may play a role (2). Other risk factors for vitamin D deficiency include adiposity and female gender (3, 4). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Family-related factors may affect serum vitamin D levels / Clemente, Maria Grazia; Argiolas, Dario; Blue, Mary E; Argiolas, Lino; Bitti, Angela; Saderi, Laura; Piana, Andrea; Sotgiu, Giovanni; Antonucci, Roberto. - In: ACTA PAEDIATRICA. - ISSN 0803-5253. - (2019). [10.1111/apa.14978]

Family-related factors may affect serum vitamin D levels

Clemente, Maria Grazia;Saderi, Laura;Piana, Andrea;Sotgiu, Giovanni;Antonucci, Roberto
2019-01-01

Abstract

Vitamin D deficiency in childhood is a re-emerging public health problem. Epidemiological studies have shown that it can lead to rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults and may play a role in a variety of extraskeletal disorders, including asthma, type 1 diabetes, infectious and cardiovascular diseases and cancer (1). Vitamin D deficiency is identified by measuring serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels and studies of levels between parents and their offspring, and among siblings, suggests the family environment may play a role (2). Other risk factors for vitamin D deficiency include adiposity and female gender (3, 4). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
2019
Family-related factors may affect serum vitamin D levels / Clemente, Maria Grazia; Argiolas, Dario; Blue, Mary E; Argiolas, Lino; Bitti, Angela; Saderi, Laura; Piana, Andrea; Sotgiu, Giovanni; Antonucci, Roberto. - In: ACTA PAEDIATRICA. - ISSN 0803-5253. - (2019). [10.1111/apa.14978]
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