title: Vitamin d deficiency: time for inaction?
abstract: In 1998, the British Medical Journal boldly stated in an editorial headline, "Vitamin D Deficiency: Time for Action."(1) The urgency was clear: vitamin D deficiency was going undiagnosed and untreated in large numbers of people. Patients were at risk and suffering needlessly. A simple, extremely low-cost, low-toxicity intervention was readily available. All that was required was vitamin D advocacy.
authors.affiliation: Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, Center for Health Care Innovation, Allina Health Care, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Dr Plotnikoff is an editor of Global Advances in Health and Medicine .
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Plotnikoff
keywords: Vitamin D; bone mass; deficiency; n of 1; pro-hormone; sufficiency