Vitamin D Intake and the Hypercalcemic Syndrome

The Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1963 published a memorandum entitled. "The Prophylactic Requirement and the Toxicity of Vitamin D," (Pediatrics, 31:512, 1963). The Committee believed at that time that there was circumstantial evidence relating vitamin D intake to the pathogenesis of the mild form of infantile hypercalcemia, and probably also of the severe form, which, in addition to hypercalcemia, manifests typical facies, supravalvular aortic stenosis, and a mental defect.