"Vitamin D" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A vitamin that includes both CHOLECALCIFEROLS and ERGOCALCIFEROLS, which have the common effect of preventing or curing RICKETS in animals. It can also be viewed as a hormone since it can be formed in SKIN by action of ULTRAVIOLET RAYS upon the precursors, 7-dehydrocholesterol and ERGOSTEROL, and acts on VITAMIN D RECEPTORS to regulate CALCIUM in opposition to PARATHYROID HORMONE.
| Descriptor ID |
D014807
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.210.500.812.768
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vitamin D" by people in Profiles.
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Effect of obesity on the associations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D with prevalent and incident distal sensorimotor polyneuropathy: population-based KORA F4/FF4 study. Int J Obes (Lond). 2022 07; 46(7):1366-1374.
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Mendelian randomisation study of the relationship between vitamin D and risk of glioma. Sci Rep. 2018 02 05; 8(1):2339.
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Genetics and other factors in the aetiology of female pattern hair loss. Exp Dermatol. 2017 06; 26(6):510-517.
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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and incident diabetes mellitus type 2: a competing risk analysis in a large population-based cohort of older adults. Eur J Epidemiol. 2013 Mar; 28(3):267-75.
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Low levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D are associated with increased risk of myocardial infarction, especially in women: results from the MONICA/KORA Augsburg case-cohort study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2013 Jan; 98(1):272-80.
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Effect of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D on risk for type 2 diabetes may be partially mediated by subclinical inflammation: results from the MONICA/KORA Augsburg study. Diabetes Care. 2011 Oct; 34(10):2320-2.
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