Open AccessSun exposure and Vitamin D in rural India: A cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Shobhit Garg,
Aparajita Dasgupta,
Swanya Prabha Maharana,
Bobby Paul,
Lina Bandyopadhyay,
Aritra Bhattacharya
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_258_18
Subject(s) - medicine , sunlight , cross sectional study , vitamin , vitamin d and neurology , logistic regression , west bengal , vitamin a deficiency , sun exposure , environmental health , receiver operating characteristic , vitamin d deficiency , demography , physiology , dermatology , retinol , socioeconomics , pathology , physics , astronomy , sociology
Vitamin D deficiency/Vitamin D Insufficiency (VDI) is now recognized as a pandemic. Cutaneous exposure to ultraviolet-B causes photolysis of epidermal 7-dehydrocholesterol, converting it to pre-Vitamin D3 (precholecalciferol), which then undergoes isomerization to form the stable hormone Vitamin D3.