A ray of sunshine for the vitamin D-heart hypothesis

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 416-417

  Golomb, Beatrice ^a   Aronoff Spencer, Eli ^a   Steadman, Michael ^a   Wu, Winnie ^a   Yan, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCIUM; VITAMIN D;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HAZARD RATIO; HEART INFARCTION; LETTER; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

CALCIUM, DIETARY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VITAMIN D;

EID: 61449266730     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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