Sunlight and Vitamin D: A global perspective for health

Dermato-Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-108

  Wacker, Matthias ^a   Holick, Michael F ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

25 hydroxyvitamin D; Autoimmune; Cancer; Latitude; Rickets; Sunlight; UV lamp; UV radiation; UVB; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCITRIOL; COLECALCIFEROL; ERGOCALCIFEROL; ERGOSTEROL; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 8; SUNSCREEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VITAMIN D;

AIR POLLUTION; ALTITUDE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM METABOLISM; CAPILLARY; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CROHN DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LATITUDE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL HEALTH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; PHOTOTHERAPY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULSE WAVE; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RICKETS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN CAPILLARY; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SOFT TISSUE CALCIFICATION; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; UPREGULATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN D INTOXICATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84881154740     PISSN: 19381972     EISSN: 19381980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/derm.24494     Document Type: Review

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