Open AccessUpdate on vitamin D: pros and cons
Author(s) -
Cristiana Cipriani,
Sara Piemonte,
M. Cilli,
Jessica Pepe,
Salvatore Minisola
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1971-3266
pISSN - 1724-8914
DOI - 10.11138/ccmbm/2015.12.3.222
Subject(s) - vitamin d and neurology , cons , vitamin , medicine , hormone , endocrinology , physiology , intensive care medicine , bioinformatics , biology , computer science , programming language
Controversies on vitamin D currently represent a challenging topic in mineral metabolism research. In particular, current guidelines on vitamin D supplementation did not report consistent recommendation and the issue related to beneficial vs harmful effects of loading vitamin D doses did not lead to any firm universal conclusion. Finally, serum and clinical outcomes of vitamin D supplementation, particularly as far as extra-skeletal effect of the hormone, need to be further investigated.