Strategies to improve vitamin D status in northern european children: Exploring the merits of vitamin D fortification and supplementation
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Adequacy of vitamin D in children in Europe has been the focus of a number of investigations. The results of measuring serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D show high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency during the winter with lower prevalence during the summer. National policies on food fortification or individual supplementation with vitamin D have been recently revisited by the individual countries and the European Union as a whole. Optiford is a project managed by a coalition of scientists formed to optimize vitamin D fortification in the northern European Countries, was given the task to decide if food fortification with vitamin D is feasible and to provide a scientific basis for setting the vitamin D fortification level in Europe. This article presents the results of these investigations to date, with particular attention to potential corrective strategies to allow children and adolescents living in countries at high latitudes to maintain healthy circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels year around, even in the absence of adequate sun exposure during a significant part of the year.
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Mandatory vitamin D food fortification and dietary supplementation policies may have improved vitamin D status in Finnish populations and may explain the lower AD prevalence estimate in Finland compared with Sweden.
“Mandatory vitamin D food fortification of certain foods and dietary supplementation policies may have improved vitamin D status in Finish populations [48,49,50], and may explain the lower prevalence estimate for AD in this country.”
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- Authors
- Tylavsky, F. A., Cheng, S., Lyytikäinen, A., Viljakainen, H., & Lamberg-Allardt, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center (US)
- University of Jyväskylä (FI)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Tylavsky, Frances A
- Venue
- The Journal of Nutrition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-04
- Volume
- 136
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1130-1134
- ISSN
- 0022-3166 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1929950971
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Nutrition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Vitamin D Research Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutrition and Health Studies
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Vitamin K Research Studies
- Keywords
- vitamin D status, vitamin D deficiency, children, adolescents, food fortification, vitamin D supplementation, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, seasonal variation, high latitudes, sun exposure, Northern Europe
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Aged, Calcifediol, Child, Diet, Europe, Female, Finland, Food, Fortified, Humans, Nutritional Status, Seasons, Sunlight, Vitamin D, Vitamin D Deficiency, Nutrition Policy, Dietary Supplements
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