Prevalence of low serum vitamin D concentration in an urban population of elderly women in Poland

Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnetrznej

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 699-703

  Napiórkowska, Luiza ^a   Budlewski, Tadeusz ^a   Jakubas Kwiatkowska, Wioletta ^a   Hamzy, Violeta ^b   Gozdowski, Dariusz ^c   Franek, Edward ^a,d  

^a Leczenia Nieswoistych Chorob Zapalnych Jelit   (Poland)

^b Instytut Matki i Dziecka   (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Deficiency; Insufficiency; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCIUM; CREATININE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATE; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; POLAND; PREVALENCE; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WINTER;

EID: 72149125588     PISSN: 00323772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20452/pamw.815     Document Type: Article

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