Vitamin D deficiency in UK Asian families: activating a new concern

Vitamin D has steroid hormonal effects which can produce clinical symptoms and signs unrelated to calcium homoeostasis. Its deficiency has been implicated as a risk factor for diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, and tuberculosis in Asians. In this review, the incidence, aetiology, prevention, and tre...

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Published in:Archives of disease in childhood 2002-03, Vol.86 (3), p.147-149
Main Authors: Shaw, N J, Pal, B R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asia - ethnology
Asian
Asians
Asians in foreign countries
Babies
Biological and medical sciences
Cardiovascular diseases
Child
Coma
Compliance
deficiency
Families & family life
General and cellular metabolism. Vitamins
Health aspects
Health care
Health promotion
Hormonal effects
Humans
Incidence
Individualized Instruction
Medical sciences
Mothers
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Pregnancy
Public health
Review
rickets
Risk factors
United Kingdom
United Kingdom - epidemiology
Vitamin D
Vitamin D deficiency
Vitamin D Deficiency - ethnology
Vitamin D Deficiency - etiology
Vitamin D Deficiency - prevention & control
Vitamin deficiency
Womens health
Young Children
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Summary:Vitamin D has steroid hormonal effects which can produce clinical symptoms and signs unrelated to calcium homoeostasis. Its deficiency has been implicated as a risk factor for diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, and tuberculosis in Asians. In this review, the incidence, aetiology, prevention, and treatment of symptomatic vitamin D deficiency in childhood are considered. A renewed public health campaign is required in the UK to address the continuing problem of vitamin D deficiency in Asian families.
ISSN:0003-9888
1468-2044
DOI:10.1136/adc.86.3.147