TY - JOUR T1 - Vitamin D deficiency–do we follow our own advice? JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 521 LP - 523 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.11-6-521 VL - 11 IS - 6 AU - Ruth Dobson AU - Ute C Meier AU - Monica Marta AU - Sreeram Ramagopalan AU - Gavin Giovannoni Y1 - 2011/12/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/11/6/521.abstract N2 - 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. ER -