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Research Article| Volume 20, ISSUE 3, P569-590, September 2000

Calcium and Vitamin D: Diagnostics and Therapeutics

  • Michael F. Holick
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    Address reprint requests to Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Vitamin D, Skin, and Bone Research Laboratory, 715 Albany Street, M-1013, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118.
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    From the Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Nutrition, and Diabetes, Vitamin D, Skin, and Bone Research Laboratory, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-2712(18)30054-4
Calcium and Vitamin D: Diagnostics and Therapeutics
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      Vitamin D is essential for calcium metabolism and bone health. The major source of vitamin D is from exposure to sunlight. Vitamin D deficiency causes rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults and exacerbates osteoporosis. Vitamin D is metabolized to 1,25-dihyroxyvitamin D3, which is responsible for regulating calcium absorption and cellular proliferation. Vitamin D may not only be important for bone health, but may also be important in decreasing risk of colon, breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer.
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      This work has been supported in part by grants M01RR 00533 and R01 AR36963.

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