Can Vitamin D Improve Muscle Function in Autoimmune Rheumatic Disorders?
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  • vitamin D
  • connective tissue diseases
  • myositis
  • autoimmune rheumatic diseases
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This video is adapted from 10.3390/nu16142329

Vitamin D is a secosteroid hormone essential for calcium homeostasis and skeletal health, but established evidence highlights its significant roles also in muscle health and in the modulation of immune response. This review aims to explore the impact of impaired vitamin D status on outcomes of muscle function and involvement in inflammatory and autoimmune rheumatic diseases damaging the skeletal muscle efficiency both with direct immune-mediated mechanisms and indirect processes such as sarcopenia. Altered serum vitamin D status is commonly observed in inflammatory and autoimmune rheumatic diseases and seems to be associated with adverse muscle health outcomes. While maintaining adequate serum vitamin D concentrations may confer muscle-protective effects, further research is needed to confirm these findings and establish optimal supplementation strategies to obtain a safe and efficient serum threshold.

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Cutolo, M.; Hysa, E.; Gotelli, E.; Campitiello, R.; Paolino, S.; Pizzorni, C.; Casabella, A.; Sulli, A.; Smith, V. Can Vitamin D Improve Muscle Function in Autoimmune Rheumatic Disorders?. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1478 (accessed on 07 February 2025).
Cutolo M, Hysa E, Gotelli E, Campitiello R, Paolino S, Pizzorni C, et al. Can Vitamin D Improve Muscle Function in Autoimmune Rheumatic Disorders?. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1478. Accessed February 07, 2025.
Cutolo, Maurizio, Elvis Hysa, Emanuele Gotelli, Rosanna Campitiello, Sabrina Paolino, Carmen Pizzorni, Andrea Casabella, Alberto Sulli, Vanessa Smith. "Can Vitamin D Improve Muscle Function in Autoimmune Rheumatic Disorders?" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1478 (accessed February 07, 2025).
Cutolo, M., Hysa, E., Gotelli, E., Campitiello, R., Paolino, S., Pizzorni, C., Casabella, A., Sulli, A., & Smith, V. (2025, January 17). Can Vitamin D Improve Muscle Function in Autoimmune Rheumatic Disorders?. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1478
Cutolo, Maurizio, et al. "Can Vitamin D Improve Muscle Function in Autoimmune Rheumatic Disorders?." Encyclopedia. Web. 17 January, 2025.
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