Vitamin d and child health: From the controversy to the novel therapeutic approaches

• Main Authors: Diego G. Peroni (Author), Giulia Nuzzi (Author), Roberto Bernardini (Author), Massimo Landi (Author), Alberto Martelli (Author), Carlo Capristo (Author), Pasquale Comberiati (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Vitamin D (VitD) is a vitamin essential for human life. In addition to its well-known activities on phospho-calcium metabolism and bone mineralization, we start to know its actions at extraskeletal levels, due to the presence of its receptor and the 1α-hydroxylase enzyme in many cells of the body, e...