The recent Endocrine Society guidelines on vitamin D have generated significant discussion and debate within the medical and scientific communities. While vitamin D is essential for bone health, immune function, and overall well-being, the optimal levels for preventing and managing various health conditions remain contentious. These new guidelines aim to standardize recommendations for vitamin D intake and supplementation; however, questions persist about their applicability across diverse populations such as children, pregnant women, obese individuals, and dark-skinned individuals.
This Research Topic seeks to explore the implications of the new vitamin D guidelines, addressing both their evidence base and real-world impact. By examining the guidelines from multiple perspectives, this collection aims to comprehensively assess the new 2024 vitamin D guidelines, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses and identifying areas for future research.
We encourage submissions that investigate the clinical, physiological, and societal impacts of the new recommendations, with a focus on patient health outcomes. We welcome original research, reviews, clinical studies, and perspective articles focusing on, but not limited to:
● Evaluation of the evidence supporting the new vitamin D guidelines.
● The role of vitamin D in preventing and managing conditions such as osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorders.
● Implications of the guidelines for pediatric populations, including their impact on growth, bone health, and immune function.
● The challenges of implementing the guidelines in diverse adult populations, considering factors such as age, gender, lifestyle, pregnancy, skin pigmentation, and body weight.
● Novel diagnostic and monitoring tools for assessing vitamin D status: challenges still existing on methodological issues regarding vitamin D measurements
● The interactions of vitamin D with other micronutrients critical for health
● Hypovitaminosis D consequences in extra-skeletal diseases
● The challenge of identifying additive vitamin D metabolites with biological roles
● The role of environmental and dietary factors in achieving adequate vitamin D levels for its skeletal and extra-skeletal functions
● Exploration of vitamin D deficiency and its health consequences in at-risk populations.
Keywords: Vitamin D, Guidelines, Diabetes, Osteoporosis, Hypovitaminosis D, Autoimmune disease, Cardiovascular disorders, rickets, fractures, bone density
Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
