http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/...vitamin_d_kids
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Using the American Academy of Pediatrics' cutoff for healthy vitamin D levels, 6.4 million children — about 20 percent of kids that age — have blood levels that are too low. Applying a less strict, higher cutoff, two-thirds of children that age, including 90 percent of black kids and 80 percent of Hispanics, are deficient in vitamin D.
A Pediatrics editorial says the strongest evidence about effects of vitamin D deficiency in kids involves rickets, a bone disease common a century ago but that continues to occur.
Rickets can be treated and prevented with 400 units daily of vitamin D, the editorial says. The pediatricians' group recently recommended that amount for all children, saying that most need vitamin supplements......
Exactly how much vitamin D children and adults should get, and defining when they are deficient, is under debate. Doctors use different definitions, and many are waiting for guidance expected in an Institute of Medicine report on vitamin D due next year. The institute is a government advisory group that sets dietary standards
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While the statistics are revealing....the dosing is not great.
This demostrates that physicians will test, but don't want to treat this aggressively enough.
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