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Vitamin D and Health

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Contents<br />

Preface ............................................................................................................................................. v<br />

Membership of Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition: Working Group on <strong>Vitamin</strong> D ........... vi<br />

Membership of Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition ......................................................... viii<br />

Summary .......................................................................................................................................... x<br />

1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 1<br />

2. Biology <strong>and</strong> metabolism .......................................................................................................... 5<br />

3. Photobiology of vitamin D .................................................................................................... 18<br />

4. Measuring vitamin D exposure (from diet <strong>and</strong> skin synthesis) ............................................... 28<br />

5. Relationship between vitamin D exposure (from diet & skin synthesis) <strong>and</strong> serum 25(OH)D<br />

concentration ........................................................................................................................ 34<br />

6. <strong>Vitamin</strong> D <strong>and</strong> health outcomes ............................................................................................ 41<br />

Musculoskeletal health outcomes ......................................................................................... 42<br />

Rickets.......................................................................................................................... 45<br />

Osteomalacia ............................................................................................................... 47<br />

Other musculoskeletal health outcomes (beyond rickets <strong>and</strong> osteomalacia) by life<br />

stage ............................................................................................................................ 48<br />

Conclusions - vitamin D <strong>and</strong> musculoskeletal outcomes .............................................. 67<br />

Non-musculoskeletal health outcomes ................................................................................. 69<br />

Pregnancy <strong>and</strong> lactation: non-skeletal outcomes in mother <strong>and</strong> baby ......................... 69<br />

Cancers ........................................................................................................................ 74<br />

Cardiovascular disease & hypertension ........................................................................ 76<br />

All-cause mortality ....................................................................................................... 80<br />

Immune modulation ..................................................................................................... 81<br />

Infectious diseases ....................................................................................................... 86<br />

Neuropsychological functioning (cognitive function, depression, dementia, autism,<br />

schizophrenia) .............................................................................................................. 91<br />

Oral health ................................................................................................................... 94<br />

Age-related macular degeneration .............................................................................. 96<br />

Conclusions – non-musculoskeletal health outcomes .................................................. 97<br />

Selection of health outcomes to inform the setting of DRVs for vitamin D ........................... 98<br />

7. Potential adverse effects of high vitamin D intakes/serum 25(OH)D concentration ............ 101<br />

8. Dietary vitamin D intakes <strong>and</strong> serum/plasma 25(OH)D concentrations in the UK ............... 108<br />

9. Review of DRVs for vitamin D .............................................................................................. 116<br />

10. Overall summary <strong>and</strong> conclusions ....................................................................................... 130<br />

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