PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ruth Dobson
AU  - Ute C Meier
AU  - Monica Marta
AU  - Sreeram Ramagopalan
AU  - Gavin Giovannoni
TI  - Vitamin D deficiency–do we follow our own advice?
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.11-6-521
DP  - 2011 Dec 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 521--523
VI  - 11
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/11/6/521.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/11/6/521.full
SO  - Clin Med2011 Dec 01; 11
AB  - Over the last few years, vitamin D deficiency has emerged as a risk factor for many diseases. Public awareness of the importance of the ‘sunshine vitamin’ is increasing, however deficiency remains an ongoing problem. Is an awareness of the importance of vitamin D enough to promote healthy people to take supplements or is a different approach required? In this article the importance of vitamin D is discussed and data showing that knowledge of this is not sufficient to encourage people to take supplements are presented.