Vitamin D deficiency in UK Asian families: activating a new concern
Open Access
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 86 (3), 147-149
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.86.3.147
Abstract
Vitamin D has steroid hormonal effects which can produce clinical symptoms and signs unrelated to calcium homoeostasis. Its deficiency has been implicated as a risk factor for diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, and tuberculosis in Asians. In this review, the incidence, aetiology, prevention, and treatment of symptomatic vitamin D deficiency in childhood are considered. A renewed public health campaign is required in the UK to address the continuing problem of vitamin D deficiency in Asian families.Keywords
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