Current vitamin D status in European and Middle East countries and strategies to prevent vitamin D deficiency: a position statement of the European Calcified Tissue Society
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023728%3A_____%2F19%3AN0000010" target="_blank" >RIV/00023728:_____/19:N0000010 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11110/19:10402850
Result on the web
<a href="https://eje.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/eje/180/4/EJE-18-0736.xml" target="_blank" >https://eje.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/eje/180/4/EJE-18-0736.xml</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EJE-18-0736" target="_blank" >10.1530/EJE-18-0736</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Current vitamin D status in European and Middle East countries and strategies to prevent vitamin D deficiency: a position statement of the European Calcified Tissue Society
Original language description
Vitamin D deficiency (serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH) D) <50 nmol/L or 20 ng/mL) is common in Europe and the Middle East. It occurs in <20% of the population in Northern Europe, in 30-60% in Western, Southern and Eastern Europe and up to 80% in Middle East countries. Severe deficiency (serum 25(OH) D <30 nmol/L or 12 ng/mL) is found in >10% of Europeans. The European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) a dvises that the measurement of serum 25(OH) D be standardized, for example, by the Vitamin D Standardization Program. Risk groups include young children, adolescents, pregnant women, older people (especially the institutionalized) and non-Western immigrants. Consequences of vitamin D deficiency include mineralization defects and lower bone mineral density causing fractures. Extra-skeletal consequences may be muscle weakness, falls and acute respiratory infection, and are the subject of large ongoing clinical trials. The ECTS advises to improve vitamin D status by food fortification and the use of vitamin D supplements in risk groups. Fortification of foods by adding vitamin D to dairy products, bread and cereals can improve the vitamin D status of the whole population, but quality assurance monitoring is needed to prevent intoxication. Specific risk groups such as infants and children up to 3 years, pregnant women, older persons and non-Western immigrants should routinely receive vitamin D supplements. Future research should include genetic studies to better define individual vulnerability for vitamin D deficiency, and Mendelian randomization studies to address the effect of vitamin D deficiency on long-term non-skeletal outcomes such as cancer.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30202 - Endocrinology and metabolism (including diabetes, hormones)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY
ISSN
0804-4643
e-ISSN
1479-683X
Volume of the periodical
180
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
32
Pages from-to
P23-P54
UT code for WoS article
000463954100002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85063096942