Vitamin D in pediatric age: consensus of the Italian Pediatric Society and the Italian Society of Preventive and Social Pediatrics, jointly with the Italian Federation of Pediatricians

• Main Authors: Giuseppe Saggese (Author), Francesco Vierucci (Author), Flavia Prodam (Author), Fabio Cardinale (Author), Irene Cetin (Author), Elena Chiappini (Author), Gian Luigi de' Angelis (Author), Maddalena Massari (Author), Emanuele Miraglia Del Giudice (Author), Michele Miraglia Del Giudice (Author), Diego Peroni (Author), Luigi Terracciano (Author), Rino Agostiniani (Author), Domenico Careddu (Author), Daniele Giovanni Ghiglioni (Author), Gianni Bona (Author), Giuseppe Di Mauro (Author), Giovanni Corsello (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Vitamin D plays a pivotal role in the regulation of calcium-phosphorus metabolism, particularly during pediatric age when nutritional rickets and impaired bone mass acquisition may occur. Besides its historical skeletal functions, in the last years it has been demonstrated that vitamin D di...