Vitamin D Insufficiency in Cadets of the Amur Region

Abstract

Novadays, the lack of sunshine vitamin D is associated with rickets in children and osteoporosis in adults. Recently, however, new data on the physiological role of cholecalciferol and the relationship of its deicit with numerous diseases (immune system, cardiovascular, oncological, neurological, etc.) were received. This paper presents the analysis of the results of the study of vitamin D metabolites in serum of healthy adolescents, training on the basis of the Amur Cadet Corps, residing in the territory of the Amur region. Risk factors for development of vitamin D deiciency were Identiied and the adequacy of preventive measures was assessed. A study to identify D-deicient states of conditionally healthy adolescents in the Amur region began with the December 2014 and March, 2015. The article presents the irst results of studies indicating a high frequency of deicits of varying severity of vitamin D in healthy adolescent boys in the Amur region. Currently the principles of prevention and optimal methods of correction of low vitamin D status in adolescents are not developed. These results allow to speak about necessity of revision of existing methodological recommendations taking into account modern approaches to the prevention and treatment of deiciency with diferent degrees of severity of vitamin D in children and adolescents. Key words. Vitamin D, cholecalciferol, hypovitaminosis, deiciency, vitamin D insuiciency, adolescent boys, cadets, risk factors. Introduction. In the scientiic literature has dramatically increased the interest in solar vitamin D. Over the past half century was published more than 60 thousand articles on the subject. Not more than 30% of physiological needs vitamin D enters the human body. To prevent the efects of D-deiciency condition is a necessary and timely prevention and treatment of vitamin D deiciency, so additional applications of farmpreparatov vitamin D throughout life is necessary. Up to the present time vitamin D was associated within the meaning of the doctor efect on bone-joint system and for the prevention/treatment of rickets in children the irst year