Preventable but no strategy: Vitamin D deficiency in the UK

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 614-615

  Davies, Justin H ^a   Shaw, Nicholas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D;

BONE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; BONE DISEASES; CHILD; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 79959852528     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.191627     Document Type: Editorial

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