More than 40 percent of the U.S. population is estimated to have a vitamin D deficiency, especially in regions with less year-round sun exposure. The vitamin, which is vital for the body’s absorption ...

Middle Eastern female immigrants are at an increased risk of vitamin D deficiency and their response to prescribed vitamin D dosages may not be adequate and affected by other factors. The objectives ...

Most of what we read concerning vitamin D is about the effects of low levels of the vitamin and what that does to our bodies. What I am asked lately by my patients, however, is, “Can I get too much ...

Circulating serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels reflect the net contribution of food and supplement intake as well as skin production through sun exposure, and are widely accepted as the ...

Vitamin D has two forms which include ergocalciferol and cholecalciferol. Whereas ergocalciferol is derived from ergosterol in plants, usually yeast, by irradiation, cholecalciferol is usually derived ...

August 16, 2011 — High-dose vitamin D supplementation significantly improves musculoskeletal pain and discomfort caused by aromatase inhibitors (AIs) and may have a positive effect on bone health, ...

Oct. 10 -- FRIDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Many breast cancer patients have low levels of vitamin D, which could lead to weaker bones and increased risk of fractures, say U.S. researchers who ...

MAYWOOD, Ill. -- A daily dose of vitamin D may just be what Chicagoans need to get through the long winter, according to researchers at Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing ...

The research, supported by FAPESP, involved 80 women over the age of 45 who were about to start treatment at the oncology outpatient clinic of the general and teaching hospital (“Hospital das Clínicas ...

More than 40 percent of the U.S. population is estimated to have a vitamin D deficiency, especially in regions with less year-round sun exposure. The vitamin, which is vital for the body’s absorption ...