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Lack of vitamin D isn’t quite as obvious in adults. Signs and symptoms might include: Fatigue. Bone pain. Muscle weakness, muscle aches or muscle cramps. Mood changes, like depression. However, you may have no signs or symptoms of vitamin D deficiency. What causes vitamin D deficiency? In general, the two main causes of vitamin D deficiency are:
19 sty 2024 · Vitamin D deficiency is typically defined as having blood levels below 20 ng/mL, while levels from 21–29 ng/mL are considered insufficient. Most adults should get 1,500–2,000 international...
10 kwi 2024 · A vitamin D deficiency means you don't have enough of this vitamin in your body. You need vitamin D to grow and maintain your bones. You could be at risk for deficiency if you don't get...
Vitamin D helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body. These nutrients are needed to keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy. A lack of vitamin D can lead to bone deformities such as rickets in children, and bone pain caused by a condition called osteomalacia in adults.
Vitamin D deficiency is the state of having inadequate amounts of vitamin D in your body, which may cause health problems like brittle bones and muscle weakness. There may be no symptoms and doctors don’t routinely check vitamin D levels, so many people are deficient and don’t realize it.
26 wrz 2023 · Vitamin D deficiency symptoms in adults. Some people complain of a general tiredness, vague aches and pains and a general sense of not being well. In more severe deficiency (known as osteomalacia), there may be more severe pain and also weakness.
29 lip 2024 · Overt vitamin D deficiency, characterized by hypocalcemia and/or hypophosphatemia and rickets and osteomalacia in children and osteomalacia in adults, is now uncommon in most developed countries (see "Epidemiology and etiology of osteomalacia" and "Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of osteomalacia in adults").
