{"id":249,"date":"2020-09-28T07:26:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T07:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=249"},"modified":"2020-09-28T07:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T07:26:49","slug":"vitamin-d-deficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/vitamin-d-deficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D deficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Vitamin_D_deficiency\/\">Vitamin D deficiency<\/a> was an existing Victorian CPG that has been revised then reviewed by CPG Committee members. It will be considered for PIC endorsement on 8 October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Vitamin D is essential for bone and muscle health. Low vitamin D and low calcium and\/or phosphate can cause nutritional rickets<\/li>\n<li>Sunlight\u00a0is the most important source of vitamin D at all ages<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin D deficiency is common in risk groups and should be self-managed wherever possible &#8211; through education, behaviour change and supplementation as required<\/li>\n<li>In Australia, nutritional rickets is generally only seen in infants and children with dark skin<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This existing Victorian CPG has been revised and will be considered for PIC endorsement on 8 October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}