Hypovitaminosis D and disease: consequence rather than cause?

In their editorial calling for vitamin D to be put into perspective Harvey and Cooper do not consider the possibility, supportive to their view, that hypovitaminosis D is the consequence rather than the cause of disease.1 We recently completed a study showing unequivocally that serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D is a negative acute phase reactant. We measured serum C reactive protein …