Recently added articles from Indian Journal of Medical Research:

Vitamin D status in Andhra Pradesh : A population based study[dagger]

Mar 01, 2008; Harinarayan, C V; Ramalakshmi, T; Prasad, U V; Sudhakar, D ... Background & objectives: Data on the vitamin D status of the population in a tropical country like India have seldom been documented. Vitamin D deficiency is presumed to be rare. We carried out this study to document the dietary habits, serum calcium, 25(OH)vitamin D [25(OH)D], and ...

Nutrition & bone health

Mar 01, 2008; Gopalan, Sarath; Ramachandran, Prema ... Nutrition and bone health is tale of two nutrients: calcium and vitamin D. Studies carried out in the last century brought to light several complex and intricate interactions between these two seemingly simple nutrients and bone with several twists and turns. The new century has brought answers ...

Role of calcium-sensing receptor in bone biology

Mar 01, 2008; Sharan, Kunal; Siddiqui, J A; Swarnkar, Gaurav; Chattopadhyay, N ... Bone turnover helps accomplish long-term correction of the extracellular calcium (Ca^sup 2+^^sub o^) homeostasis by the actions of osteoblasts and osteoclasts. These processes are highly regulated by the actions of hormones, most prominently parathyroid hormone (PTH), the release of which is a ...

Dietary calcium intake - a critical reappraisal

Mar 01, 2008; Bhatia, V ... The clinical implications of calcium deficiency include rickets, poor bone mass accrual as well as abnormal foetal programming during pregnancy, poor peak bone mass due to poor accrual in childhood and adolescence, postmenopausal osteoporosis and osteoporosis of the elderly. Serum calcium is ...

The physiology of vitamin D : Current concepts

Mar 01, 2008; Kochupillai, N ... The vitamin D endocrine system, besides playing pivotal roles in calcium homeostasis & bone mineral metabolism, is now recognized to subserve a wide range of fundamental biological functions in cell differentiation, inhibition of cell growth as well as immuno modulation. Vitamin D is a ...

Osteoporosis in Indians

Mar 01, 2008; Malhotra, N; Mithal, A ... Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone mass with micro architectural deterioration of bone tissue leading to enhance bone fragility, thus increasing the susceptibility to fracture. Although exact numbers are not available, based on available data and clinical experience, on estimated 25 ...

Vitamin D &/or calcium deficiency rickets in infants & children: a global perspective

Mar 01, 2008; Pettifor, John M ... It was only in the early part of the 20th century with the discovery of vitamin D and of the role that ultraviolet light irradiation plays in vitamin D formation that rational and appropriate therapy became available and rickets was all but eradicated in a number of developed countries. Since ...

Vitamin D deficiency in exclusively breast-fed infants

Mar 01, 2008; Balasubramanian, S; Ganesh, R ... Exclusive breast-feeding is recommended up to 6 months of age with all its beneficial effects on child survival. Several studies have concluded that adequate intake of vitamin D cannot be met with human milk as the sole source of vitamin D. As breast-feeding rates increase, the incidence of ...

Prevalence & potential significance of vitamin D deficiency in Asian Indians

Mar 01, 2008; Goswami, R; Mishra, S K; Kochupillai, N ... Studies from our center and other parts of India have drawn attention towards wide prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in our country. VDD has been reported in all age groups including toddlers, school children, pregnant women and their neonates and adult males and females residing in rural ...

Vitamin D & bone mineral density of healthy school children in northern India

Mar 01, 2008; Marwaha, R K; Sripathy, Gopalakrishnan ... Studies on bone mineral health in children have been primarily based on clinical, biochemical and radiological evidence. Measurement of vitamin D levels and bone mass by non invasive imaging techniques like dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), have led to a plethora of data regarding various ...

Nutritional bone disease in Indian population

Mar 01, 2008; Teotia, S P S; Teotia, M ... Syndromes of bone disease and deformities consequent to disorders of nutrition, bone and mineral metabolism constitute a serious national health problem. The studies on this subject are scanty. Data on nutritional bone disease are described and discussed. We had surveyed 337.68 million ...