Vitamin D in the New Decade: Facts, Controversies, and Future Perspectives for Daily Clinical Practice - Hardcover

by Spyridon N. Karras (Guest Editor), Pawel Pludowski (Guest Editor)

Vitamin D has been the focus of tremendous ongoing scientific research throughout the past two decades. Its primogenetic undisputed role in bone mineralization has been expanded to a strikingly disparate amalgamation of transparent scientific cases and observational studies, randomized controlled trials of dubious design, and sporadically personal aphorisms and dogma. This phenomenon has led to the development of a burgeoning scientific field, in which substantial controversy is inevitably reflected in daily clinical practice, resulting in the precarious interpretation of not necessarily available results, lifestyle-affected vitamin D supplementation