Should I be getting my vitamin D levels checked?
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2023
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Hypponen, E.
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Australia has seen a surge in vitamin D testing of children, with similar trends reported for adults around the world. GPs are now being urged not to test for vitamin D unnecessarily. So when is low vitamin D a potential concern? And when might you need to get your levels tested? Vitamin D is not only a nutrient – when metabolised in the body it acts as a hormone. We have receptors for this hormone all around our body and it helps regulate the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus. Vitamin D also has many other roles, including helping our immune defences and contributing to DNA repair and cell differentiation.
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Copyright the author. This publication is available under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)