Lawson D E
J Hum Nutr. 1981 Feb;35(1):61-3. doi: 10.3109/09637488109143487.
A fuller understanding of the factors affecting vitamin D utilisation is needed to completely explain rickets and osteomalacia. The cause of many, if not most, cases in Britain is not to be found in the inadequacy of dietary vitamin D or sunlight exposure. Attention is drawn to the need to ensure that all groups at risk, eg pregnant women, receive the recommended vitamin D supplements
