The vitamin D grey areas in pediatric primary care. Very low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in asymptomatic children living in northeastern Italy

The principal questions about the vitamin D topic are far to be resolved: in which children 25-hydroxyvitamin D blood testing is appropriate and how much cholecalciferol should be given in the absence of the test? Analyzing vitamin D status in a group of children cared by a "family pediatrician...

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Autores principales: Mazzoleni, Stefano, Toderini, Daniela, Boscardin, Chiara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22513071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1687-9856-2012-7
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Toderini, Daniela
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description The principal questions about the vitamin D topic are far to be resolved: in which children 25-hydroxyvitamin D blood testing is appropriate and how much cholecalciferol should be given in the absence of the test? Analyzing vitamin D status in a group of children cared by a "family pediatrician" in northeastern Italy we noted a high incidence of deficiency in asymptomatic preschool children without risk factors. As routine vitamin D testing is not recommended in the average risk population the supplementation with cholecalciferol represents a "grey area" mostly in pediatric primary care.
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spelling pubmed-33784452012-06-20 The vitamin D grey areas in pediatric primary care. Very low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in asymptomatic children living in northeastern Italy Mazzoleni, Stefano Toderini, Daniela Boscardin, Chiara Int J Pediatr Endocrinol Letter to the Editor The principal questions about the vitamin D topic are far to be resolved: in which children 25-hydroxyvitamin D blood testing is appropriate and how much cholecalciferol should be given in the absence of the test? Analyzing vitamin D status in a group of children cared by a "family pediatrician" in northeastern Italy we noted a high incidence of deficiency in asymptomatic preschool children without risk factors. As routine vitamin D testing is not recommended in the average risk population the supplementation with cholecalciferol represents a "grey area" mostly in pediatric primary care. BioMed Central 2012 2012-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3378445/ /pubmed/22513071 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1687-9856-2012-7 Text en Copyright ©2012 Mazzoleni et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor
Mazzoleni, Stefano
Toderini, Daniela
Boscardin, Chiara
The vitamin D grey areas in pediatric primary care. Very low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in asymptomatic children living in northeastern Italy
title The vitamin D grey areas in pediatric primary care. Very low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in asymptomatic children living in northeastern Italy
title_full The vitamin D grey areas in pediatric primary care. Very low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in asymptomatic children living in northeastern Italy
title_fullStr The vitamin D grey areas in pediatric primary care. Very low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in asymptomatic children living in northeastern Italy
title_full_unstemmed The vitamin D grey areas in pediatric primary care. Very low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in asymptomatic children living in northeastern Italy
title_short The vitamin D grey areas in pediatric primary care. Very low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in asymptomatic children living in northeastern Italy
title_sort vitamin d grey areas in pediatric primary care. very low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin d levels in asymptomatic children living in northeastern italy
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22513071
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1687-9856-2012-7
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