Vitamin D: A place in the sun?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1099-1100

  Grey, Andrew ^a   Bolland, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; HORMONE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BONE MINERALIZATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFECTION; NEOPLASM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOMALACIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; SUN EXPOSURE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 77954601905     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.174     Document Type: Editorial

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