Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among healthy adolescents.

By Catherine M. Gordon, Kerrin C. DePeter, Henry A. Feldman, E. Grace, S. Emans. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2004

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Subfields: Cell Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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• Sunlight and vitamin D for bone health and prevention of autoimmune diseases, cancers, and cardiovascular disease. (2004, positive): “Gordon et al (74) reported that (cid:2) 50% of African American teenagers in Boston werefoundtobevitaminDdeficient.”
• Vitamin D: The “sunshine” vitamin (2012, background): “[1] An estimated 1 billion people worldwide, across all ethnicities and age groups, have a vitamin D deficiency (VDD).[1-3] This pandemic of hypovitaminosis D can mainly be attributed to lifestyle and environmental factors that reduce exposure to sunlight, which is required for ultraviolet-B (UVB)-i”
• Evaluation, treatment, and prevention of vitamin D deficiency: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline. (2011, background): “In the United States, more than 50% of Hispanic and African-American adolescents in Boston (28) and 48% of white preadolescent girls in Maine had 25(OH)D below 20 ng/ml (29).”
• Resurrection of vitamin D deficiency and rickets. (2006, neutral): “In the latter part of the 19th century, autopsy studies done in Boston and Leiden, The Netherlands, showed that 80–90% of children had rickets.”
• Guidelines for preventing and treating vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency revisited. (2012, background): “More than 40% of Hispanic and African American adolescents in Boston were found to be vitamin D deficient (23), and 48% of white preadolescent girls from Maine had a 25(OH)D less than 20 ng/ml (24).”
• Prevalence of Vitamin D inadequacy among postmenopausal North American women receiving osteoporosis therapy. (2005, background): “Low 25(OH)D concentrations are not invariably associated with the sick or elderly because suboptimal 25(OH)D concentrations ( 20 ng/ml) have been reported in healthy adolescents (25).”