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Vitamin D is a unique bioregulatory molecule that can be synthesized in the skin as well as obtained via dietary sources. Vitamin D and its specific role in numerous diseases is a hot topic of scientific research. This book presents new insights into the specific role of vitamin D deficiency in the pathophysiological and biochemical mechanisms of many diseases. It is organized into four sections that present the latest data from clinical and preclinical investigations of the consequences of vitamin D deficiency in children and in diseases such as COVID-19 as well as cardiovascular, metabolic, endocrine, and renal disorders.

Vitamin D in human nutrition. --- Vitamin D in the body.

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Vitamin D deficiency --- Vitamin D --- Vitamin D in the body --- Epidemiology.

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Calcium in the body. --- Vitamin D in the body. --- Calcium in human nutrition. --- Vitamin D in human nutrition. --- Dietary supplements.

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Steroid hormones --- Vitamin D in the body --- Vitamin D --- Vitamin D --- Vitamin D --- Vitamin D --- Congresses --- Congresses --- Congresses --- Therapeutic use --- Congresses --- therapeutic use

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Comprised exclusively of clinical cases covering disorders of vitamin D and its clinical management, this concise, practical casebook will provide clinicians in endocrinology with the best real-world strategies to properly diagnose and treat the various forms of the condition they may encounter. Each chapter is a case that opens with a unique clinical presentation, followed by a description of the diagnosis, assessment and management techniques used to treat it, as well as the case outcome and clinical pearls and pitfalls. Cases included illustrate different causes of deficiency as well as management strategies, including deficiency in healthy patients and infants, in eating disorders and gastric bypass, surgical and chronic hypoparathyroidism, and chronic kidney disease, among others. Pragmatic and reader-friendly, Vitamin D: A Clinical Casebook will be an excellent resource for clinical endocrinologists, nutritionists, and family and emergency medicine physicians alike.

Clinical Endocrinology --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Vitamin D. --- Vitamin D in the body. --- Body composition --- Calcium regulating hormones --- Steroid hormones --- Vitamins, Fat-soluble --- Endocrinology. --- Personal health and hygiene. --- Clinical Nutrition. --- Internal medicine --- Hormones --- Endocrinology . --- Clinical nutrition. --- Clinical nutrition --- Diet --- Diet and disease --- Dietotherapy --- Food --- Medical nutrition therapy --- MNT (Medical nutrition therapy) --- Nutrition therapy --- Dietetics --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- Therapeutic use