Skip to main content
ARS Home » Plains Area » Houston, Texas » Children's Nutrition Research Center » Research » Publications at this Location » Publication #294620
Title: Targeting dietary vitamin D intakes and plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D in healthy infants

Author
item ABRAMS, STEVEN - Children'S Nutrition Research Center (CNRC)

Submitted to: Journal of the American Medical Association
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/1/2013
Publication Date: 5/1/2013
Citation: Abrams, S.A. 2013. Targeting dietary vitamin D intakes and plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D in healthy infants. Journal of the American Medical Association. 309(17):1830-1831.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Vitamin D nutrition has become one of the most widely discussed issues in modern medicine. Ongoing research has challenged traditional views of the role of vitamin D as limited to bone health. A large number of recent studies have raised compelling and as yet unanswered questions about optimal dietary intakes and outcomes related to vitamin D. In infants and small children, it is well recognized that a severe deficiency of vitamin D can lead to rickets and related serious health problems including hypocalcemia, but little is known about other outcomes that are not related to bone or calcium.