TY - JOUR
T1 - Vitamin D status in Greenland - dermal and dietary donations
AU - Andersen, Stig
AU - Jakobsen, Anna
AU - Rex, Hanne Lynge
AU - Lyngaard, Folmer
AU - Kleist, Inge-Lise
AU - Kern, Peder
AU - Laurberg, Peter
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Vitamin D status influences skeletal health, the risk of falls and fractures, and muscle health, and it has been associated with inflammatory, infectious, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders in addition to some cancers. Prevailing intracellular infections such as tuberculosis are speculated to relate to vitamin D status. The vitamin D sources are dietary and dermal, the latter depending on UVB radiation exposure from the sun. Life in the Arctic influences vitamin D status because of dietary peculiarities, the polar night, waning of the ozone layer and maybe ethnic differences between Inuit and non-Inuit.
AB - Vitamin D status influences skeletal health, the risk of falls and fractures, and muscle health, and it has been associated with inflammatory, infectious, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders in addition to some cancers. Prevailing intracellular infections such as tuberculosis are speculated to relate to vitamin D status. The vitamin D sources are dietary and dermal, the latter depending on UVB radiation exposure from the sun. Life in the Arctic influences vitamin D status because of dietary peculiarities, the polar night, waning of the ozone layer and maybe ethnic differences between Inuit and non-Inuit.
U2 - 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21225
DO - 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21225
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23986902
SN - 1239-9736
VL - 72
JO - International Journal of Circumpolar Health
JF - International Journal of Circumpolar Health
M1 - 21225
ER -