Are Vitamin D Supplements an Adequate Substitute for Sun Exposure?
| العنوان: | Are Vitamin D Supplements an Adequate Substitute for Sun Exposure? |
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| المؤلفون: | David Hoel, Allen Miller |
| المصدر: | Medical Research Archives. 11 |
| بيانات النشر: | Knowledge Enterprise Journals, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Complementary and alternative medicine, Pharmaceutical Science, Pharmacology (medical) |
| الوصف: | It is becoming well understood that low blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) are a risk factor for many diseases and other adverse health effects including hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, schizophrenia, asthma, preterm birth, maternal mortality, myopia and COVID-19. Levels of serum 25(OH)D are at the same time a measure of vitamin D status and, since 70-90% of this biomolecule is produced by sun exposure, a measure of sun exposure. There is some disagreement among scientists as to whether vitamin D supplements are an effective substitute for sun exposure for attenuation of these diseases and adverse health effects. In this paper we review the current state of the science on this subject and conclude that vitamin D supplements are not an adequate substitute for sun exposure for attenuation of most of these diseases and adverse health effects, particularly hypertension and cardiovascular disease, and should not be recommended in lieu of sun exposure to patients presenting with low levels of serum 25(OH)D. Vitamin D supplementation for such patients could even be harmful, because it will raise patients’ serum 25(OH)D levels, thereby giving patients a false sense of security and obscuring the best available metric for insufficient sun exposure. |
| تدمد: | 2375-1924 2375-1916 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::6a89dc680eb6a484e6b54f25e65c4e11 https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i3.3635 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........6a89dc680eb6a484e6b54f25e65c4e11 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 23751924 23751916 |
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