title: Dietary vitamin D: is it necessary?
abstract: A fuller understanding of the factors affecting vitamin D utilisation is needed to completely explain rickets and osteomalacia. The cause of many, if not most, cases in Britain is not to be found in the inadequacy of dietary vitamin D or sunlight exposure. Attention is drawn to the need to ensure that all groups at risk, eg pregnant women, receive the recommended vitamin D supplements
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010018:Osteomalacia / Q000209:etiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012279:Rickets / Q000209:etiology*; D012621:Seasons; D013472:Sunlight; D006113:United Kingdom; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014808:Vitamin D Deficiency / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D014807:Vitamin D