Vitamin D Status and Its Seasonal Variability in Healthy Young Adults in an Asian Indian Urban Population

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-191

  Ramakrishnan, Santosh ^a   Bhansali, Anil ^a   Bhadada, Sanjay ^a   Sharma, Ravikant ^a   Walia, Rama ^a   Ravikiran, Muthuswami ^a   Shanmugasundar, Gopal ^a   Ravikumar, Padala ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM INTAKE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC BONE DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; WINTER;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID HORMONE; SEASONS; VITAMIN D;

EID: 79959230719     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP10155.OR     Document Type: Article

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