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doi:10.22028/D291-27441
Title: | Live Longer with Vitamin D? |
Author(s): | Gröber, Uwe Reichrath, Jörg Holick, Michael F. |
Language: | English |
Title: | Nutrients |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 3 |
Startpage: | 1871 |
Endpage: | 1880 |
Publisher/Platform: | MDPI |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
DDC notations: | 610 Medicine and health |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | The global burden of vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency is of great concern for public health. According to recent studies, vitamin D deficiency is an important etiological factor in the pathogenesis of many chronic diseases. Whether or not there is a connection between 25-hydoxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) status and overall mortality is a matter of considerable debate. A new meta-analysis confirmed that low 25(OH)D levels were associated with a significant increased risk for all-cause mortality. Individuals with severe vitamin D deficiency have almost twice the mortality rate as those with 25(OH)D level ≥ 30 ng/mL, (≥75 nmol/L). Unlike previous meta-analyses which suggested that serum 25(OH)D > 50 ng/mL was associated with increased mortality, this new analysis found that there was no increased risk even when 25(OH)D levels were ≥70 ng/mL. In general, closer attention should be paid to vitamin D deficiency in medical and pharmaceutical practice than has been the case hitherto. The results of these studies are consistent with the recommendation to improve the general vitamin D status in children and adults by means of a healthy approach to sunlight exposure, consumption of foods containing vitamin D and supplementation with vitamin D preparations. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.3390/nu7031871 |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-274411 hdl:20.500.11880/28535 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-27441 |
ISSN: | 2072-6643 |
Date of registration: | 6-Jan-2020 |
Faculty: | M - Medizinische Fakultät |
Department: | M - Dermatologie |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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