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Vitamin D Supplementation in Australia: Implications for the Development of Supplementation Guidelines
High rates of vitamin D deficiency and testing have been reported in Australia, yet there are few reports regarding vitamin D supplement use. Australian wholesale sales data was obtained for vitamin D supplements for the period 2000–2011. There has been a threefold increase in supplement sales over...
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152924/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25210624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/374208 |
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description | High rates of vitamin D deficiency and testing have been reported in Australia, yet there are few reports regarding vitamin D supplement use. Australian wholesale sales data was obtained for vitamin D supplements for the period 2000–2011. There has been a threefold increase in supplement sales over the past decade, whereby over A$94 million supplements containing vitamin D in Australia were sold during the year 2010. There were eighty-nine manufacturers that produce a variety of 195 vitamin D products. The amount of vitamin D in these products varies considerably, from 40 to 1000 IU per unit, although supplements containing only vitamin D had the highest amount of vitamin D. There was a trend for sales to increase in winter months. Given the potential public health benefits of vitamin D, there is an urgent need for a better understanding of supplementation use and for the development of supplementation. |
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spelling | pubmed-41529242014-09-10 Vitamin D Supplementation in Australia: Implications for the Development of Supplementation Guidelines Bilinski, Kellie Talbot, Peter J Nutr Metab Research Article High rates of vitamin D deficiency and testing have been reported in Australia, yet there are few reports regarding vitamin D supplement use. Australian wholesale sales data was obtained for vitamin D supplements for the period 2000–2011. There has been a threefold increase in supplement sales over the past decade, whereby over A$94 million supplements containing vitamin D in Australia were sold during the year 2010. There were eighty-nine manufacturers that produce a variety of 195 vitamin D products. The amount of vitamin D in these products varies considerably, from 40 to 1000 IU per unit, although supplements containing only vitamin D had the highest amount of vitamin D. There was a trend for sales to increase in winter months. Given the potential public health benefits of vitamin D, there is an urgent need for a better understanding of supplementation use and for the development of supplementation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4152924/ /pubmed/25210624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/374208 Text en Copyright © 2014 K. Bilinski and P. Talbot. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bilinski, Kellie Talbot, Peter Vitamin D Supplementation in Australia: Implications for the Development of Supplementation Guidelines |
title | Vitamin D Supplementation in Australia: Implications for the Development of Supplementation Guidelines |
title_full | Vitamin D Supplementation in Australia: Implications for the Development of Supplementation Guidelines |
title_fullStr | Vitamin D Supplementation in Australia: Implications for the Development of Supplementation Guidelines |
title_full_unstemmed | Vitamin D Supplementation in Australia: Implications for the Development of Supplementation Guidelines |
title_short | Vitamin D Supplementation in Australia: Implications for the Development of Supplementation Guidelines |
title_sort | vitamin d supplementation in australia: implications for the development of supplementation guidelines |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152924/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25210624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/374208 |
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