Vitamine D: actualité et recommandations [Vitamin D: update and recommendations].

The number of studies related to vitamin D has increased exponentially in recent years and it becomes difficult to integrate these data into daily practice. This article focuses on the practice by offering an overview on screening, needs, treatment and consequences of deficiency. While in some areas, a consensus seems to emerge, other issues still require a lot of research in order to have an impact on practice. Independently of the threshold values we use, there is an increased prevalence, which makes vitamin D deficiency the most common and also the most underdiagnosed deficiency. Vitamin D is like a marker of good health and a marker of the evolution of our society. How can be used this marker by the practitioner