Background: Vitamin D and calcium deficiencies are common worldwide, causing nutritional
rickets and osteomalacia, which have a major impact on health, growth, and development of …

Vitamin D deficiency can lead to musculoskeletal diseases such as rickets and
osteomalacia, but vitamin D supplementation may also prevent extraskeletal diseases such …

Background A large number of observational studies have reported harmful effects of low 25-
hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels on non-skeletal outcomes. We performed a systematic …

abstract Background: Vitamin D deficiency has been described as being pandemic, but
serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25 (OH) D] distribution data for the European Union are of very …

Objective: To investigate the effect of including seafood and fish oils, as part of an energy-
restricted diet, on weight loss in young overweight adults. Design: Randomized controlled …

Background Vitamin D deficiency may be a risk factor for mortality but previous meta-
analyses lacked standardization of laboratory methods for 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25 [OH] D) …

Background: Knowledge gaps have contributed to considerable variation among
international dietary recommendations for vitamin D. Objective: We aimed to establish the …

Food fortification is a potentially effective public health strategy to increase vitamin D intakes
and circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25 (OH) D] concentrations. We updated a previous …

Background: The relative potency of 25-hydroxyvitamin D 3 to vitamin D 3 needs to be better
defined so that food-composition tables can better reflect the true vitamin D nutritive value of …

Long chain omega-3 fatty acids (LC n-3 FA) are considered nutritional factors with a
potential to modulate food intake. Thus, the aim of the current study was to determine …