Vitamin D concentrations in an UK inner-city multicultural outpatient population

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 468-473

  Ford, Loretta ^a   Graham, Valerie ^a   Wall, Alan ^a   Berg, Jonathan ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; VITAMIN D;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 33751328040     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 00045632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/000456306778904614     Document Type: Article

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