Talk:Calcipotriol

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I just made a complete edit of this page. The old page had very little info about the drug itself, and a great deal of unreferenced claims regarding this drug's supposed tendency to cause hypercalicemia and a host of other problems. While such findings have occurred, they are extremely rare, and only in patients using an unusually large amount of the drug. I referenced my claim that this drug is safe with multiple sources. OsteopathicFreak 05:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A hormone can be a vitamin....

I removed the following from the article:

(These facts demonstrate why many believe Vitamin D should be reclassified as a hormone, not a vitamin.)

Vitamin D is a prohormone that is converted into a hormone in the kidney. That however has nothing to do with whether it is is a vitamin. Vitamins are defined as such based on whether they are, or are not: "nutrients required in very small amounts for essential metabolic reactions in the body". Vitamin D clearly fits this description. Thus, a molecule can be both a hormone and a vitamin, the terms are not mutually exclusive, and the above statement confuses the definitions of both.--DO11.10 22:47, 7 March 2007 (UTC)