Solar power to prevent type 1 diabetes?

Pediatric Diabetes

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 79-80

  Badenhoop, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; VITAMIN D;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; DIABETOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INCIDENCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ONSET AGE; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRENATAL PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; PHOTOTHERAPY; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 42449150399     PISSN: 1399543X     EISSN: 13995448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2008.00387.x     Document Type: Editorial

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