{"id":21219,"date":"2022-12-05T14:59:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=21219"},"modified":"2022-12-06T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T08:36:10","slug":"is-vitamin-d-a-drug-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/12\/is-vitamin-d-a-drug-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Is vitamin D a drug or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeanreview.org\/article\/29532\">retraction notice<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The article &#8220;Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy inhibits the activation of fetal membrane NF-\u03baB pathway, by N. Gurkan, published in Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2022; 26 (16): 5926-5931-10.26355\/eurrev_202208_29532-PMID: 36066168&#8221; has been retracted by the author as she stated that Vitamin D was used in the study as supplement and not a drug without the permission of the Ministry. Although Vitamin D is a commonly used supplement during pregnancy, the Local Ethics Committee accepted it as a drug and asked for it to be approved by the Ministry of Health. Therefore, the manuscript has been withdrawn. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. https:\/\/www.europeanreview.org\/article\/29532<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In contrast to most other endocrinologists I think that the decision is correct. Vitamin D is been chemically synthesized prohormone, underlies quality control, has benefits and side effects, could be even toxic, so it should be treated as a drug. Cudos to the Local Ethics Committee.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 20.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting retraction notice The article &#8220;Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy inhibits the activation of fetal membrane NF-\u03baB pathway, by N. Gurkan, published in Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2022; 26 (16): 5926-5931-10.26355\/eurrev_202208_29532-PMID: 36066168&#8221; has been retracted by the author as she stated that Vitamin D was used in the study as supplement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/12\/is-vitamin-d-a-drug-or-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is vitamin D a drug or not?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2405,3995],"class_list":["post-21219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunshine-vitamin","tag-drug","tag-supplement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21232,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219\/revisions\/21232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}