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01.02.2015 | DIAGNOSTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Vitamin D and thyroid autoimmune diseases: the known and the obscure
verfasst von:
Giorgia Bizzaro, Yehuda Shoenfeld
Erschienen in:
Immunologic Research
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Ausgabe 1-2/2015
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Excerpt
Vitamin D is a secosteroid hormone, obtained from the diet or synthesized in human skin from 7-dehydrocholesterol after UV irradiation exposure. Its importance in calcium homeostasis is well recognized, as well its role in decreasing the risk of rickets, fractures, osteopenia, osteomalacia, and osteoporosis. What is a new developing issue is the involvement of vitamin D deficiency (commonly defined as less than 30 ng/ml) in the boost of many other disorders and especially in autoimmune diseases [
1]. In light of these new acquisitions, vitamin D deficiency may represent a global health problem that has been underestimated for many years. …