Vitamin D in public health nutrition

Abstract

The year 2013 was again a very active year in the vitamin D field. The selection of papers discussed here focus on vitamin D intake, fortification, supplements, and vitamin D status and its associations with diseases and health. Here, we discuss several of the papers in the context of methodological challenges and gaps in current knowledge. (1) , the Endocrine Society (4) and the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (5) . The paper by Oliveira et al. (6) used a cut-off of #25 nmol/l to assess deficiency (7) whereas Wallingford et al. (8) and Golbahar et al. (9) reported vitamin D deficiency as serum 25(OH)D , 30 nmol/l (risk for bone health) in line with the Institute of Medicine recommendations (1) . Other papers separated vitamin D status into quartiles (10) and tertiles (11) , which may be valid for their research but hinders overall assessment of vitamin D status against established cut-offs. Marker and cut-points

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