Vitamin D supplementation can prevent and cure nutritional rickets in infants and children.
Preclinical and observational data suggest that the vitamin D endocrine system has a wide …

The etiology of endemic rickets was discovered a century ago. Vitamin D is the precursor of
25-hydroxyvitamin D and other metabolites, including 1, 25 (OH) 2D, the ligand for the …

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 …

Aim: Ovarian cancer is one of the most common gynecologic cancers that has the highest
mortality rate. Considering the fact that knowledge on the incidence, mortality of ovarian …

Ovarian cancer (OC) is the seventh most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the
world and the tenth most common in China. Epithelial OC is the most predominant …

Background Previous meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of vitamin D
supplementation and total cancer incidence and mortality found inconsistent results, and …

Highlights•Ovarian cancer is a major cause of mortality and case numbers are
increasing.•Five-year relative survival is below 45%.•Reproductive exposures strongly …

Importance Cohort studies have reported increased incidence of cardiovascular disease
(CVD) among individuals with low vitamin D status. To date, randomized clinical trials of …

Vitamin D3 has many important health benefits. Unfortunately, these benefits are not widely
known among health care personnel and the general public. As a result, most of the world's …

Observational studies, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and Mendelian randomization
(MR) studies have yielded inconsistent results on the associations of vitamin D …