Vitamin D status, dependence on age, and seasonal variations in the concentration of vitamin D in Croatian postmenopausal women initially screened for osteoporosis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 861-867

  Laktasic Zerjavic, Nadica ^a   Korsic, Mirko ^a   Crncevic Orlic, Zeljka ^b   Kovac, Zdenko ^a   Polasek, Ozren ^c   Soldo Juresa, Dragica ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^c SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^d University Clinic for Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Osteoporosis; Postmenopausal women; Seasons; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROATIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; OSTEOPENIA; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; AGE; BLOOD; ETHNOLOGY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROATIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 77956263345     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-010-1409-3     Document Type: Article

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