PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Neil JL Gittoes
TI  - Vitamin D – what is normal according to latest research and how should we deal with it?
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.16-2-171
DP  - 2016 Apr 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 171--174
VI  - 16
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/16/2/171.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/16/2/171.full
SO  - Clin Med2016 Apr 01; 16
AB  - Vitamin D deficiency is a public health concern. Mediated by classical endocrine effects, vitamin D deficiency is causally linked with bone and calcium disorders. Non-endocrine actions of vitamin D are also widely recognised and these effects are mediated by local tissue activation of vitamin D bringing about intracrine effects in non-classical sites. Supported by large volumes of observational studies linking low circulating vitamin D with negative outcomes for many common disease states, there is growing interest that vitamin D may be central to the pathology and outcomes of many common diseases, including cardiovascular, cancer and autoimmune conditions. This article explores the quality of evidence linking vitamin D and various disease outcomes, and furthermore describes some of the cellular and molecular mechanisms of vitamin D action that may help explain some of the incongruity of data observed in observational versus interventional studies of vitamin D supplementation.