This medicine contains vitamin D, which allows calcium to be fixed in the bones and a deficiency of which causes rickets. It is used to prevent and treat vitamin D deficiency.
Vitamin D plays an important role in bone growth and mineralization. If the main source of vitamin D remains exposure to light (the body synthesizes it from a cholesterol derivative under the influence of light), food should not be neglected, even if good sources of vitamin D are few.
Food is no longer enough to compensate for the lack of vitamin D synthesis associated with a lack of sunlight. Indeed, the typical diet of the population living in France provides below the required amount of vitamin D. Indeed, in France, the SUVIMAX study (2003) showed that more than 70% of adults (men and women) do not consume enough vitamin D.
Key populations include postmenopausal women, older people, people with dark or black skin, breastfeeding women, people with little sun exposure…
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