Vitamin D - General Science

Added March 2007

• Relationship Between Serum Parathyroid Hormone Levels, Vitamin D Sufficiency, and Calcium Intake
• Vitamin D₂ Is Much Less Effective than Vitamin D₃ in Humans
• Vitamin D: Important for Prevention of Osteoporosis, Cardiovascular Heart Disease, Type 1 Diabetes, Autoimmune Diseases, and Some Cancers
• The vitamin D questions: How much do you need and how should you get it?
• Effects of calcium, dairy product, and vitamin D supplementation on bone mass accrual and body composition in 10–12-y-old girls: a 2-y randomized trial
• The Vitamin D Epidemic and its Health Consequences
• Normal Serum Vitamin D Levels
• Tanning is associated with optimal vitamin D status (serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration) and higher bone mineral density
• Risk assessment for vitamin D
• Sunlight, tanning booths, and vitamin D
• Tanning and vitamin D status
• Daily Duration of Vitamin D Synthesis in Human Skin with Relation to Latitude, Total Ozone, Altitude, Ground Cover, Aerosols and Cloud Thickness
• Vitamin D-dependent Seasonal Variation of PTH in Growing Male Adolescents

Added November 2005

• Daily Duration of Vitamin D Synthesis in Human Skin with Relation to Latitude, Total Ozone, Altitude, Ground Cover, Aerosols and Cloud Thickness
• The Vitamin D₃ Pathway in Human Skin and its Role for Regulation of Biological Processes
• The Vitamin D requirement in health and disease
• The evolution of human skin coloration
• Benefits and Requirements of Vitamin D for Optimal Health: A Review
• Annual intramuscular injection of a megadose of cholecalciferol for treatment of vitamin D deficiency: efficacy and safety data
• Vitamin D review
• Geography and skin colour
• Vitamin D and calcium deficits predispose for multiple chronic diseases
• Vitamin D and the elderly
• Vitamin D Intake: A Global Perspective of Current Status
• Vitamin D Insufficiency in North America
• Overview of the Proceedings from Experimental Biology 2004 Symposium: Vitamin D Insufficiency: A Significant Risk Factor in Chronic Diseases and Potential Disease-Specific Biomarkers of Vitamin D Sufficiency
• Dietary Recommendations for Vitamin D: a Critical Need for Functional End Points to Establish an Estimated Average Requirement
• Circulating 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels Indicative of Vitamin D Sufficiency: Implications for Establishing a New Effective Dietary Intake Recommendation for Vitamin D
• Vitamin D fortification in the United States and Canada: current status and data needs
• Functional indices of vitamin D status and ramifications of vitamin D deficiency
• Distribution of the Vitamin D receptor and 1α-hydroxylase in human brain
• Assay Variation Confounds the Diagnosis of Hypovitaminosis D: A Call for Standardization
• Vitamin D requirements during lactation: high-dose maternal supplementation as therapy to prevent hypovitaminosis D for both the mother and the nursing infant
• Vitamin D requirements: current and future
• Assessment of dietary vitamin D requirements during pregnancy and lactation
• Scientists Probe Role of Vitamin D: Deficiency a Significant Problem, Experts Say
• Too little vitamin D in premenopausal women: why should we care?
• Globe Grows Darker as Sunshine Diminishes 10% to 37%
• Vitamin D: importance in the prevention of cancers, type 1 diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis
• Vitamin D Round Table
• Long-latency deficiency disease: insights from calcium and vitamin D
• Protecting against adverse effects of sun protection
• Vitamin D and Autoimmune Diabetes
• Lessons for nutritional science from vitamin D
• Vitamin D receptor expression in the embryonic rat brain
• Vitamin D in preventive medicine: are we ignoring the evidence?
• Skin Deep
• Vitamin D: A Millenium Perspective
• European Commission: Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Food on the Tolerable Upper Intake Level of Vitamin D
• Human serum 25-hydroxycholecalciferol response to extended oral dosing with cholecalciferol
• Ultraviolet radiation and autoimmune disease: insights from epidemiological research
• Ultraviolet radiation and health: friend and foe
• Vitamin D₃ and brain development
• Calcium Absorptive Effects of Vitamin D and Its Major Metabolites
• Vitamin D insufficiency in a population of healthy western Canadians
• Vitamin D: the neglected neurosteroid?
• Response - Vitamin D: the neglected neurosteroid?
• Does ‘imprinting’ with low prenatal vitamin D contribute to the risk of various adult disorders?
• Extrarenal Expression of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3-1α-Hydroxylase
• Vitamin D: balancing cutaneous and systemic considerations
• Vitamin D: how much do we need and how much is too much?