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. 2019 Jul 12;11(7):1570. doi: 10.3390/nu11071570

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Proposed mechanism of how early ART exposure in utero/peripartum affects vitamin D metabolism in HIV infected and HIV exposed-uninfected children. Both PI-based and NNRTI-based ART regimen decrease availability of biologically active metabolite of vitamin D (1.25-(OH)D), leading to decreased to VDR activation and downstream effects.