Med. praxi. 2022;19(4):304-307 | DOI: 10.36290/med.2022.046
Vitamin D supplementation - current knowledge
- Klinika tělovýchovného lékařství a kardiovaskulární rehabilitace, LF UP a FN Olomouc
Vitamin D hypovitaminosis - deficiency and insufficiency - is a global health problem that affects more than a billion children and adults. The optimal level of vitamin D plays an essential role in the regulation of calcium and phosphate metabolism and is necessary not only for proper bone metabolism, but also has other functions in the body, such as influencing muscle function, stimulating cell differentiation, insulin secretion and stimulating the immune system. Hypovitaminosis of vitamin D is then associated not only with a disorder of bone metabolism, but also with the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases, arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus type II, cancer, depression, dementia, psychiatric diseases and others. Hypovitaminosis D is also one of the factors in the complicated course of the disease covid 19. The article summarizes the latest findings on its supplementation.
Keywords: vitamin D, insufficiency, deficiency, supplementation.
Published: September 29, 2022 Show citation
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