VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY AND ITS ASSOCIATED DISEASES

Abstract

The sunshine vitamin, Vitamin D, has been associated with reduction of many health related critical diseases. As per recent studies, Vitamin D is regarded as a nutrient involved in bone metabolism and presence of vitamin D receptor in number of different tissues implies that vitamin D has various physiological roles apart from calcium and phosphorus metabolism. The present review will examine the current literature regarding vitamin D deficiency and its association with various types of diseases like diabetes, hypertension, lung disease, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, childhood asthma etc. Various databases like Pubmed, Google Scholar, Embase has been searched for Vitamin D associated diseases and details compiled with scientific evidence.