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Bread as a Vehicle Vitamin D Fortification: Application to Nursing Home Residents

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Vitamin D deficiency is extremely prevalent in the older adults. Most often the first symptoms are caused by myopathy with muscle pain, fatigue, muscular weakness, and gait disturbances. More severe deficiency causes osteomalacia with deep bone pain, reduced mineralization of bone matrix and fractures. The conditions suggested to be associated with vitamin D insufficiency include total mortality, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, pain, cancer, cardiovascular disease, infections, and falls [1].

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Abbreviations

1,25(OH)2D:

1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D

25(OH)D:

25-Hydroxyvitamin D

IGF-1:

Insulin-like growth factor

IU:

International unit

QoL:

Quality of life

QUALEFFO 41:

Questionnaire especially developed for measuring quality of life in patients with vertebral deformities

RDA:

Recommended dietary allowance

UL:

Tolerable upper intake level

UVB:

Ultraviolet B rays

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  1. Department of Pathophysiology, Grigore. T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 16, Universităţii Street, 700115, Iaşi, Romania

    Veronica Mocanu

  2. Department of Endocrinology, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iaşi, Romania

    Corina Galesanu

  3. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Reinhold Vieth

  4. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Reinhold Vieth

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Mocanu, V., Galesanu, C., Vieth, R. (2013). Bread as a Vehicle Vitamin D Fortification: Application to Nursing Home Residents. In: Preedy, V., Srirajaskanthan, R., Patel, V. (eds) Handbook of Food Fortification and Health. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7110-3_15

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