...Min Wang; Minxian Wang; Ru Zhang; Chao Shen; Liuxin Zhang; Yajie Ding; Zongzhe Tang; Hongliang Wang; Wei Zhang; Yue Chen; Jie Wang Introduction: Vitamin D-binding protein (VDBP) is correlated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) through the biological functions of regulating plasma vitamin...

...Hongjian Xie; Min Min; Siqi Guo; Yang Xian; Fan Yang; Xia Wang; Yali Cui; Yingying Li; Xiaojuan Liu Background: Previous studies have demonstrated the close relationship between vitamin D, vitamin D receptor (VDR), and obesity. Nevertheless, few studies have reported wherther the relationship among...

...Sarah N. Taylor Background: Vitamin D supplementation is known to both prevent and treat rickets, a disease of hypomineralized bone. Childhood is a period of great bone development and, therefore, attention to the vitamin D needed to optimize bone health in childhood is imperative. Summary...

...Leizhen Duan; Ling Han; Qin Liu; Yili Zhao; Lei Wang; Yan Wang Background: The obesity pandemic has been paralleled by a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (VDD). There is growing epidemiological evidence linking low vitamin D status with obesity events. In addition, observational studies also...

...Tania Mara Rodrigues Simões; Rosangela da Silva; Bianca Bianco; Fernando Luiz Affonso Fonseca; Dirceu Solé; Roseli Oselka Saccardo Sarni Background: In children, nutritional status of vitamin D (vitD), frequency of vitD receptor (VDR) gene polymorphisms and their associations with overweight...

...Carmem U.P. Esmeraldo; Maria Eliana P. Martins; Evanira R. Maia; Jéssica Lissandra A. Leite; José Lucas S. Ramos; Jucier Gonçalves Jr; Cicera M. Neta; Fabíola Isabel Suano-Souza; Roseli O.S. Sarni Objective: To evaluate vitamin D serum levels of term newborns and relate them to maternal...

...Armin Zittermann; Jana B. Ernst; Sylvana Prokop; Uwe Fuchs; Jens Dreier; Joachim Kuhn; Cornelius Knabbe; Jochen Börgermann; Heiner K. Berthold; Stefan Pilz; Ioanna Gouni-Berthold; Jan F. Gummert Background/Aims: We aimed to investigate the effect of a moderately high vitamin D dose on lipid...

...Edith Visser; Nicole M. de Roos; Ellen Oosting; Silvia C. Endenburg; Jaap J. Dronkers Background: Insufficient serum vitamin D concentrations (50–75 nmol/L) are prevalent in 40–65% of patients who require total hip arthroplasty (THA). This could impair physical recovery after surgery. This study...

...Fatemeh Jahanjoo; Azizeh Farshbaf-Khalili; Seyed Kazem Shakouri; Neda Dolatkhah Introduction: Many scientists have revealed the association between vitamin D deficiency and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The purpose of this review was to evaluate the impact of vitamin D supplementation...

...Hao Zhang; Xin-hong Zhu; Wei Dong; Quan-Ming Wang Background: This study evaluates the effect of vitamin D status in patient outcomes after hip or knee joint surgery. Method: Literature search was carried out in electronic databases, and study selection followed predetermined eligibility criteria...

...Francisco Javier Ruiz-Ojeda; Augusto Anguita-Ruiz; Rosaura Leis; Concepcion M. Aguilera Vitamin D (vitD) deficiency is associated with a wide range of chronic diseases and conditions, including obesity, and with an increasing severity of metabolic dysregulation, such as insulin resistance...

...Yanting Yu; Liqiang Tian; Yanyu Xiao; Guowei Huang; Meilin Zhang Background/Aims: The mechanism, by which vitamin D influences inflammatory biomarkers in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), is not very well known. Thus, a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials was conducted to assess the effect...

..., current lifestyle with less out door activities, and increasing obesity rates, which in turn increases the storage of vitamin D in the adipose tissue, are presumably factors that contribute to the substantial upsurge in the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in humans. Since evidence is lacking regarding...

...Zahra Vahedpoor; Samaneh Mahmoodi; Mansooreh Samimi; Hamid Reza Gilasi; Fereshteh Bahmani; Ali Soltani; Mehran Sharifi Esfahani; Zatollah Asemi Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of vitamin D supplementation on the recurrence and metabolic status of patients with cervical...

...Ángel Gil; Julio Plaza-Diaz; María Dolores Mesa Background: Classically, vitamin D has been implicated in bone health by promoting calcium absorption in the gut and maintenance of serum calcium and phosphate concentrations, as well as by its action on bone growth and reorganization through...

...Seyedeh Forough Sajjadi; Khadijeh Mirzaei; Leila Khorrami-Nezhad; Zhila Maghbooli; Seyed Ali Keshavarz Background: Resting metabolic rate (RMR) used to prognosticate and measure the amount of energy required. Vitamin D is known as a new predictor of RMR. The aim of this study is to investigate...

...Sayyed Saeid Khayyatzadeh; Hassanali Vatanparast; Amir Avan; Mohammad Bagherniya; Afsane Bahrami; Mohammad Ali Kiani; Hamidreza Bahrami-Taghanaki; Gordon A. Ferns; Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan Background/Aims: Vitamin D deficiency has become endemic globally and its etiology is complex. Few studies have...

...You Lu; Yanjun Zheng; Ningjian Wang; Yingchao Chen; Qin Li; Bing Han; Yi Chen; Jing Cheng; Hualing Zhai; Fangzhen Xia; Ying Meng; Yingli Lu Objective: Vitamin D is a multifunctional vitamin for our body. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a common metabolic disease. Whether T2DM affects the serum...

...Rajwinder K. Harika; Mariska Dötsch-Klerk; Peter L. Zock; Ans Eilander Objective: The study aimed to determine the potential of compliance with Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDG) and increased vitamin D fortification to meet the recommended intake level of vitamin D at 10 µg/day based on minimal...

...Qin Li; Baoheng Xing Background: Our study aimed to examine the effects of daily consumption of vitamin D 3 -supplemented yogurt (VDY) drink on insulin resistance and lipid profiles in pregnant gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) patients. Methods: Participants aged 24-32 years in their second...