Vitamin D status among adults in the Aegean region of Turkey

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hekimsoy, Zeliha ^a   Dinç, Gönül ^a   Kafesçiler, Sabriye ^a   Onur, Ece ^a   Güvenç, Yesim ^b   Pala, Tümer ^c   Güçlü, Feyzullah ^a   Özmen, Bilgin ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 78650378417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-782     Document Type: Article

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