Vitamin D: A Comprehensive Guide for Medical Professionals

This book is a comprehensive, concise collection but a complete overview of a critical topic i.e. Vitamin D. There is no book available as yet exclusively on Vitamin D. For patients, the importance of Vitamin D holds across all age groups, both sexes, and for medical professionals, across all medical specialties existing today. Vitamin D is significantly and intricately related to all the human body’s organ systems.

This topic is of interest, significance, and relevance to every medical professional of all subjects and specialties, including postgraduate students of super specialty subjects across the globe. It is the talk and topic of today’s research worldwide. This book encompasses Vitamin D in terms of its need and role, deficiency, excessive states, and its consequences and presentations. The chapters include information about vitamin D across pediatrics to geriatrics. This book is a crisp, easy-to-carry guide on Vitamin D, written by academicians and researchers. The authors are from relevant specialties concerned with Vitamin D, e.g., Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Medical Oncology, Dermatology, Neurology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Preventive and Social Medicine, Pediatrics, to name a few. The chapters include the problem statement of its deficiency, laboratory estimation, clinical manifestations, interactions, and role in the well-being of various organ systems of the body.

Additionally, it includes tables, figures, pictures, scans, and pictorial representations for lucid reading and easy understanding.

Dr Vishal Kumar, MS, DNB, MNASc, FACS, FFSTEd, FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Edn) is an Additional Professor of Orthopedics at PGIMER, Chandigarh. He is an academician of international accolades with more than 315 publications, edited eight books, written 40 book chapters, got five patents and copyrights. He has developed, described, and published his indigenous three surgical approaches. He has won more than 25 international and national awards based on his exceptional curriculum vitae. He has authoritative publications on the topic of this book.

Dr Sandeep Patel, MS, DNB, FRCS (Trauma & Orth) is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has more than a hundred publications, has written ten chapters in Orthopaedics textbooks, is a surgeon of fine astuteness, and a researcher par excellence. His research articles are highly cited; he got a patent in his name and has filed for grant of another one.