Vitamin D deficiency and multicultural Australia

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 236-237

  Mason, R S ^a   Diamond, T H ^a  

^a ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; ERGOCALCIFEROL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; VITAMIN D;

AGE; AUSTRALIA; BONE DENSITY; BONE TURNOVER; CALCIUM ABSORPTION; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM URINE LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOTHING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPLETION; DIET; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FAILURE TO THRIVE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; MORBIDITY; MOTOR RETARDATION; NEWBORN CARE; OSTEOMALACIA; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION RESEARCH; RICKETS; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SEIZURE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUN EXPOSURE; SYMPTOM; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN D METABOLISM; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 0035801565     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143550.x     Document Type: Editorial

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