"Vitamin D Deficiency" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, 
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				A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of VITAMIN D in the diet, insufficient production of vitamin D in the skin, inadequate absorption of vitamin D from the diet, or abnormal conversion of vitamin D to its bioactive metabolites. It is manifested clinically as RICKETS in children and OSTEOMALACIA in adults. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1406)
    
			
			
				
				
					
						| Descriptor ID | D014808 | 
					
						| MeSH Number(s) | C18.654.521.500.133.770 | 
					
						| Concept/Terms | Vitamin D DeficiencyVitamin D DeficiencyDeficiency, Vitamin DDeficiencies, Vitamin DVitamin D Deficiencies
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								Prevalence of low vitamin D levels among older US Asian and Pacific Islander adults. Osteoporos Int. 2024 Nov; 35(11):2017-2024. 
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								Vitamin D Status Among Older Women Initiating Osteoporosis Therapy. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 10; 67(10):2207-2208. 
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								Vitamin D deficiency is an etiological factor for MS - No. Mult Scler. 2019 04; 25(5):639-641. 
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								MS Sunshine Study: Sun Exposure But Not Vitamin D Is Associated with Multiple Sclerosis Risk in Blacks and Hispanics. Nutrients. 2018 Feb 27; 10(3). 
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								Decrease in unnecessary vitamin D testing using clinical decision support tools: making it harder to do the wrong thing. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 Jul 01; 24(4):776-780. 
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								Pilot Study Evaluating Efficacy of 2 Regimens for Hypovitaminosis D Repletion in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2016 Feb; 62(2):252-8. 
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								Effect of Prenatal Supplementation With Vitamin D on Asthma or Recurrent Wheezing in Offspring by Age 3 Years: The VDAART Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2016 Jan 26; 315(4):362-70. 
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								Vitamin D deficiency and its characteristics among patients with acute stroke at a national referral hospital in Kampala Uganda. BMC Endocr Disord. 2015 Oct 05; 15:53. 
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								Association between vitamin D status and age-related macular degeneration by genetic risk. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2015 Oct; 133(10):1171-9. 
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								Screening for vitamin D deficiency. Ann Intern Med. 2015 May 19; 162(10):738.