More than healthy bones: A review of vitamin D in muscle health

Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 152-159

  Tanner, S Bobo ^a   Harwell, Susan A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bone; calcitriol; calcium; cholecalciferol; ergocalciferol; falls; muscle; musculoskeletal pain; myopathy; sarcopenia; vitamin D; vitamin D deficiency; vitamin D receptors

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; COLECALCIFEROL 24 HYDROXYLASE; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BONE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SARCOPENIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN D RESPONSIVE ELEMENT;

EID: 84937031836     PISSN: 1759720X     EISSN: 17597218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1759720X15588521     Document Type: Review

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