Vitamin D and calcium insufficiency-related chronic diseases: An emerging world-wide public health problem

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2585-2607

  Peterlik, Meinrad ^a   Boonen, Steven ^b   Cross, Heide S ^a   Lamberg Allardt, Christel ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D; 25 hydroxyvitamin D; Breast cancer; Calcium intake; Calcium sensing receptor; Colorectal cancer; Food fortification; Osteoporosis; Prevention; Vitamin D status

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; VITAMIN D;

BREAST CANCER; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; CALCIUM INTAKE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CANCER PREVENTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GRAIN; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMIGRANT; LUNG CANCER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NORTH AMERICA; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UTERUS CANCER; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

BONE DENSITY; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; CALCIUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 70449412229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph6102585     Document Type: Review

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