Vitamin D status and clinical implications in the adult population of Malaysia: a position paper by the Malaysian Vitamin D Special Interest Group.

What It Covers

Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this review publication.

Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency is common among populations globally, and in Asia and Malaysia.

The purpose of this Position Paper is to propose recommendations for both clinicians and non-clinicians to promote vitamin D sufficiency in Malaysian adults.

Who the Included Studies Covered

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were adults.

Literature reviews were undertaken to inform summaries of the following: vitamin D status globally and in Asian and Malaysian populations, vitamin D status among individuals with common medical conditions, and current recommendations to achieve vitamin D sufficiency through sun exposure, food intake and supplementation.

Recommendations were based on the findings of the literature reviews, recent European guidance on vitamin D supplementation, the 2018 road map for action on vitamin D in low- and middle-income countries, and research recommendations proposed by the Malaysian Ministry of Health in 2017.

What Was Measured

The subject headings attached to it are Vitamin D Deficiency, Malaysia, Vitamin D, Dietary Supplements, Sunlight, Food, Fortified and Nutritional Status.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Sun exposure and Supplementation.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is a review of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

Results are reported in around 3 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2023 (Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA), a journal based in England.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.