ReviewBreastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine2008
Does vitamin D make the world go 'round'?
Review in Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Vitamin D supplementation for preventing infections in children under five years of age.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Maternal Vitamin D Status Correlates to Leukocyte Antigenic Responses in Breastfeeding Infants.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- Correlation between vitamin A, D, E, and K levels in children with allergic rhinitis: a propensity-matched analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Field Evidence of Endogenous Vitamin D Synthesis in Atlantic Salmon Induced by Natural Sunlight.Aquaculture nutrition · 2025Article
- A physiologically based pharmacokinetic model of vitamin D.Journal of applied toxicology : JAT · 2017Article
- Association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D status with bone mineral density in 0-7 year old children.Oncotarget · 2016Article
- Vitamin D in childhood and adolescence: an expert position statement.European journal of pediatrics · 2015Review
- Effect of breastfeeding on serum osteoprotegerin and soluble receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B ligand in full term neonates.Iranian Red Crescent medical journal · 2013Article
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- Seasonal variation in the incidence rate of tuberculous meningitis is associated with sunshine hours.Epidemiology and infection · 2013Article
- [Vitamin D supplements in childhood].Atencion primaria · 2012Article
- The efficacy and safety of a high dose of vitamin d in mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled clinical trial.Iranian journal of medical sciences · 2012Article
- The role of vitamin D in pregnancy and lactation: emerging concepts.Women's health (London, England) · 2012Review
- Vitamin D signaling in the bovine immune system: a model for understanding human vitamin D requirements.Nutrients · 2012Review
- Vitamin D and its role during pregnancy in attaining optimal health of mother and fetus.Nutrients · 2012Review
- Vitamin D3 correlates inversely with systemic dendritic cell numbers and bone erosion in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps and allergic fungal rhinosinusitis.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2011Article
- BCG vaccination: a role for vitamin D?PloS one · 2011Article
- Seasonal variation of vitamin D and HbA(1c) levels in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus in the Middle East.International journal of general medicine · 2011Article
- In vivo activation of the intracrine vitamin D pathway in innate immune cells and mammary tissue during a bacterial infection.PloS one · 2010Article
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Abstract
Abstract Vitamin D has emerged from obscurity, and its effects on various organ systems throughout the body down to the cellular level are being discovered. What was once thought to be a simple hormone affecting only bone and calcium metabolism has shifted. We no longer see vitamin D as a "vitamin" important only in childhood, but as a complex hormone that is involved not only in calcium homeostasis but also in the integrity of the innate immune system. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to inflammatory and long-latency diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, diabetes, and various cancers, to name a few. In this review, we trace how we came to view vitamin D and how that view led to one of the largest epidemics of nutrient deficiency beginning in the late 20(th) century. We then discuss the needs of vitamin D in the context of the breastfeeding mother and her infant and child, why breastfed infants are particularly at risk, and what to do about it.
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