Open AccessVitamin D levels: Do we need to assess only in disease?
Author(s) -
Sunil Jamwal,
Kapil Gupta,
Tanvir Kaur Sidhu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of applied and basic medical research/international journal of applied and basic medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-9606
pISSN - 2229-516X
DOI - 10.4103/ijabmr.ijabmr_105_18
Subject(s) - vitamin d and neurology , vitamin d deficiency , medicine , population , physiology , vitamin , socioeconomic status , disease , cross sectional study , population study , environmental health , pathology
Vitamin D is conventionally known as sunshine vitamin and is synthesized endogenously in sunlight. Vitamin D is known to be a key regulator of bone metabolism, the function of genes, and essential for the development of the whole body. Deficiency of Vitamin D is now become a major worldwide epidemic health problem.