“…In human medicine, although the cause and effect relationship is not proven, the relationship between vitamin D status and diseases unrelated to bone metabolism has been extensively studied in recent years, and lower vitamin D concentrations has been associated with increased cancer incidence (Djurasinović et al, 2018;Yin et al, 2013); cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction (Giovannucci, Liu, Hollis, & Rimm, 2008), stroke and heart failure (Chowdhury et al, 2012;Muscogiuri et al, 2017), as well as autoimmune diseases (e.g., diabetes mellitus type I) (Pludowski et al, 2013), multiple sclerosis (Martinelli et al, 2014), rheumatoid arthritis (Kerr et al, 2011) and infectious diseases (White, 2008).…”