Vitamin D and cancer mortality

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 359-

  Pilz, Stefan ^a   Dobnig, Harald ^a   Tomaschitz, Andreas ^a   Winklhofer Roob, Brigitte ^b   Grant, William B ^c   Fischer, Joachim E ^d   Seelhorst, Ursula ^e   Wellnitz, Britta ^e   Boehm, Bernhard O ^f   März, Winfried ^a,g  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Human Nutrition and Metabolism Research and Training Center

^c Sunlight   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e LURIC Database LLC   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^g SYNLAB ACADEMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

CANCER MORTALITY; COLON CANCER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 58349113200     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-1023     Document Type: Letter

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