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Cashman, KD;Kinsella, M;McNulty, BA;Walton, J;Gibney, MJ;Flynn, A;Kiely, M
2014
July
British Journal of Nutrition
Dietary vitamin D-2 - a potentially underestimated contributor to vitamin D nutritional status of adults?
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SERUM 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D HEALTHY-ADULTS IRISH ADULTS SUPPLEMENTATION ERGOCALCIFEROL STANDARDIZATION PREVENTION
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It has been suggested that vitamin D-2 is not very prevalent in the human food chain. However, data from a number of recent intervention studies suggest that the majority of subjects had measurable serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D-2 (25(OH)D-2) concentrations. Serum 25(OH)D-2, unlike 25(OH)D-3, is not directly influenced by exposure of skin to sun and thus has dietary origins; however, quantifying dietary vitamin D-2 is difficult due to the limitations of food composition data. Therefore, the present study aimed to characterise serum 25(OH)D-2 concentrations in the participants of the National Adult Nutrition Survey (NANS) in Ireland, and to use these serum concentrations to estimate the intake of vitamin D-2 using a mathematical modelling approach. Serum 25(OH)D-2 concentration was measured by a liquid chromatography-tandem MS method, and information on diet as well as subject characteristics was obtained from the NANS. Of these participants, 78.7% (n 884) had serum 25(OH)D-2 concentrations above the limit of quantification, and the mean, maximum, 10th, 50th (median) and 90th percentile values of serum 25(OH)D-2 concentrations were 3.69, 27.6, 1.71, 2.96 and 6.36 nmol/l, respectively. To approximate the intake of vitamin D-2 from these serum 25(OH)D-2 concentrations, we used recently published data on the relationship between vitamin D intake and the responses of serum 25(OH)D concentrations. The projected 5th to 95th percentile intakes of vitamin D-2 for adults were in the range of 0.9-1.2 and 5-6 mu g/d, respectively, and the median intake ranged from 1.7 to 2.3 mu g/d. In conclusion, the present data demonstrate that 25(OH)D-2 concentrations are present in the sera of adults from this nationally representative sample. Vitamin D-2 may have an impact on nutritional adequacy at a population level and thus warrants further investigation.
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0007-1145
10.1017/S0007114514000725
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