Vitamin D and Metabolic Diseases: Growing Roles of Vitamin D

Vitamin D, a free sunshine vitamin available for mankind from nature, is capable to avert many health-related critical circumstances. Vitamin D is no more regarded as a nutrient involved in bone metabolism alone. The presence of vitamin D receptor in a number of tissues implies that vitamin D has va...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome 2018, 27(4), 90, pp.223-232
Hauptverfasser: Park, Jung Eun, Pichiah, P B Tirupathi, Cha, Youn-Soo
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Vitamin D, a free sunshine vitamin available for mankind from nature, is capable to avert many health-related critical circumstances. Vitamin D is no more regarded as a nutrient involved in bone metabolism alone. The presence of vitamin D receptor in a number of tissues implies that vitamin D has various physiological roles apart from calcium and phosphorus metabolism. Low serum vitamin D has been found to be associated with various types of metabolic illness such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, cardiovascular diseases including hypertension. Various studies reported that vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency in linked with metabolic syndrome risk. This review focuses on various metabolic diseases and its relationship with serum vitamin D status.
ISSN:2508-6235
2508-7576
DOI:10.7570/jomes.2018.27.4.223