Current Approaches in Vitamin D Treatment

Vitamin D is a steroid hormone that is very important for bone and mineral metabolism. Nowadays, deficiency or insufficiency of vitamin D is seen in increasing frequency. The fact that vitamin D deficiency may be associated with different acute and chronic diseases other than bone and mineral metabolism increased the interest to vitamin D in recent years. In this review, vitamin D, reasons leading to its deficiency, important factors and current approaches in diagnosis, treatment and follow-up are discussed