Vitamin D deficiency in UK Asian families: activating a new concern.
Vitamin D has steroid hormonal effects which can produce clinical symptoms and signs unrelated to calcium homoeostasis. Its deficiency has been implicated as a risk factor for diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, and tuberculosis in Asians. In this review, the incidence, aetiology, prevention, and treatment of symptomatic vitamin D deficiency in childhood are considered. A renewed public health campaign is required in the UK to address the continuing problem of vitamin D deficiency in Asian families.
Shaw
N J
NJ
Dept of Endocrinology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK. nick.shaw@bhamchildrens.wmids.nhs.uk
Pal
B R
BR
D001208:Asia / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D014808:Vitamin D Deficiency / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control