Vitamin D and Human Health

• Main Author: Simon Spedding (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Biology, life sciences; Vitamin D; supplementation; extra-skeletal effects; analogs of vitamin D; therapy and prevention; vitamin D deficiency; vitamin D activity and metabolism
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Over the past decades, researchers have gathered data demonstrating that vitamin D and its metabolites possess activities far beyond the classic regulation of calcium-phosphate homeostasis. It is now well established that vitamin D is essential for the proper functioning of the musculoskeletal, card...