Vitamin D deficiency seems to be an unnoticed and underrated global health problem, with 35% of adults in the United States estimated to be vitamin D deficient whereas over 80% of adults in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh are Vitamin D deficient. In the United States, 61% of the elderly population is vitamin D deficient whereas 90% in Turkey, 96% in India, 72% in Pakistan, and 67% in Iran were vitamin D deficient. The community-based Indian studies of the past decade done on apparently healthy controls reported a prevalence ranging from 50% to 94%.
It is proposed that screening and prophylactic measures policy be strategized especially in high-risk groups like the elderly, high altitude and sunlight deficient inhabitants, obese, and pregnant women.
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Grant WB, Al Anouti F, Boucher BJ, Fakhoury HMA, Moukayed M, Pilz S, Al-Daghri NM. Evidence That Increasing Serum 25(OH)D Concentrations to 30 ng/mL in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates Could Greatly Improve Health Outcomes. Biomedicines. 2023; 11(4):994. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/11/4/994
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