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ReviewJournal of nutrition and metabolism2021

Vitamin D Review: The Low Hanging Fruit for Human Health.

Lucy N W Mungai, Zanuba Mohammed, Michuki Maina, Omar Anjumanara

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Review in Journal of nutrition and metabolism, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Vitamin DAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022
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  11. The Role of Vitamin D in Supporting Health in the COVID-19 Era.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lucy N W MungaiDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6001-491X
Zanuba MohammedDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6669-5229
Michuki MainaKEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6874-8929
Omar AnjumanaraDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5203-3689
University of Nairobi · KEKenya Medical Research Institute · KE

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vitamin D is an important hormone that is known for the regulation of calcium and phosphate metabolism. Vitamin D deficiency leads to rickets in children and osteoporosis in adults leading to poor bone mineralisation and can also lead to serious dental complications in the same population. Recent studies have shown vitamin D to work as a hormone needed not only in bone and teeth but also in other body organs from intrauterine life up to old age. It has been demonstrated that Vitamin D has various effects on biological processes that deal with cell growth, differentiation, cell death, immune regulation, DNA stability, and neuronal growth. Despite being readily formed in the body through the intervention of the sun, patients are still found to have low vitamin D levels. We review studies done to show how vitamin D works.

Identifiers

PMID34900350
PMCPMC8660220
OpenAlexW3215193903

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Registered trials

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