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Greeks and 2% of the refugees had 25OHD levels >30 ng/mL, whereas 19.2% of Greeks and 70.6% of refugees had severe hypovitaminosis D (<10 ng/mL). Likewise, secondary hyperparathyroidism was more prevalent in refugees. There were no statistically

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Franciane Trindade Cunha de Melo University Hospital João de Barros Barreto, Federal University of Pará, Endocrinology Division, Belem, Pará, Brazil

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). According to this criterion, several studies worldwide have shown high rates of hypovitaminosis D, with an estimate of 30–40%, in European, Asian, African and South American countries ( 2 , 3 , 4 ). Therefore, hypovitaminosis D has been listed as a public

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Malachi J McKenna Metabolism Laboratory, Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, St Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Barbara F Murray Metabolism Laboratory, Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, St Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Ireland

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Myra O'Keane Metabolism Laboratory, Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, St Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Ireland

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Mark T Kilbane Metabolism Laboratory, Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, St Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Ireland

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-skeletal health (9, 10, 11, 12, 13) . We started measuring serum 25OHD in 1973 in clinical samples (14) . We conducted a number of clinical studies up to the early 1980s, and noted an extremely high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in the elderly that was easily

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Federica Saponaro Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular and Critical Area Pathology, Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Alessandro Saba Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular and Critical Area Pathology, Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Sabina Frascarelli Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular and Critical Area Pathology, Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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Aldo Clerico Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy

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Marco Scalese Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Council of Research, Pisa, Italy

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Maria Rita Sessa Laboratory of Endocrinology, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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Filomena Cetani Endocrinology Unit 2, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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Simona Borsari Endocrinology Unit 2, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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Elena Pardi Endocrinology Unit 2, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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Antonella Marvelli Department of Translational Research and of New Surgical and Medical Technologies, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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Claudio Marcocci Endocrinology Unit 2, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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Claudio Passino Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy

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Riccardo Zucchi Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular and Critical Area Pathology, Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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, 4 , 5 , 6 ). Indeed, hypovitaminosis D is associated with an increased risk of hypertension, coronary artery disease, ischemic heart disease and stroke. Moreover, it is known that it is involved in the pathophysiology of HF, with different

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Gunjan Garg Departments of Endocrinology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Biostatics

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Garima Kachhawa Departments of Endocrinology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Biostatics

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Alka Kriplani Departments of Endocrinology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Biostatics

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-Pietsch B . Association of hypovitaminosis D with metabolic disturbances in polycystic ovary syndrome . European Journal of Endocrinology 2009 161 575 – 582 . ( doi:10.1530/EJE-09-0432 ). 15 Ardabili HR Gargari BP Farzadi L . Vitamin D

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Rimesh Pal Department of Endocrinology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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Sanjay Kumar Bhadada Department of Endocrinology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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Awesh Singhare Department of Endocrinology, P D Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, India

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Anil Bhansali Department of Endocrinology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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Sadishkumar Kamalanathan Department of Endocrinology, Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India

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Manoj Chadha Department of Endocrinology, P D Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, India

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Phulrenu Chauhan Department of Endocrinology, P D Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, India

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Ashwani Sood Department of Nuclear Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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Vandana Dhiman Department of Endocrinology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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Dinesh Chandra Sharma Division of Endocrinology, Rabindranath Tagore Medical College, Udaipur, India

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Uma Nahar Saikia Department of Histopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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Debajyoti Chatterjee Department of Histopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

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albumin levels. Serum iPTH (RR 1.6–6.9 pmol/L) and 25(OH)D (RR 27.1–107 nmol/L) were measured by electrochemiluminescence assay using commercially available kits (Elecsys 2010 system, Roche Diagnostic). Those having hypovitaminosis D at the time of

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Behnaz Abiri Obesity Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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Amirhossein Ramezani Ahmadi Isfahan Endocrine and Metabolism Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

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Shirin Amini Department of Nutrition, Shoushtar Faculty of Medical Sciences, Shoushtar, Iran

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Mohammad Nikoohemmat Obesity Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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Faeze Abbaspour Obesity Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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, were overweight or obese, with 340 million children and adolescents aged 5–19 years classified as overweight or obese in 2016 ( 2 ). Micronutrient deficiencies, notably hypovitaminosis D, are common in obese patients ( 3 , 4 ). Extensive

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Malachi J McKenna St Michael's Hospital, Metabolism Laboratory, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
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Barbara F Murray St Michael's Hospital, Metabolism Laboratory, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland

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/day) administered to institutionalized elderly for 16 months with severe hypovitaminosis D, we noted a dose–response of 9.1 nmol/l (3.6 ng/ml) per 100 IU per day, nearly fourfold higher than the CPG estimate (9, 10) . Using the IOM regression equation, the

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Mirjam M Oosterwerff Departments of Internal Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public and Occupational Health, Endocrine Section

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Rosa Meijnen Departments of Internal Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public and Occupational Health, Endocrine Section

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Natasja M Van Schoor Departments of Internal Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public and Occupational Health, Endocrine Section

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Dirk L Knol Departments of Internal Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public and Occupational Health, Endocrine Section

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a younger adult population is limited. Vitamin D supplementation increased muscle power in young Arabic women (16) and improved physical performance in a small trial in 40 healthy volunteers with hypovitaminosis D (17) , but not all studies showed

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Changwei Liu Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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Yuanyuan Wan Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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Xiaona Xia Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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cells and promotes their apoptosis, preventing their transformation into antigen-presenting cells, which is the first step in the initiation of an immune response ( 9 ). Mice with diet-induced hypovitaminosis D led impaired glucose tolerance, increased

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