Novel roles of vitamin D in disease: What is new in 2011?

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 355-362

  Makariou, Stefania ^a   Liberopoulos, Evangelos N ^a   Elisaf, Moses ^a   Challa, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Immune system; Metabolic syndrome; Mortality; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ALBUMINURIA; AUTOIMMUNITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLON CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIPID METABOLISM; LOW DRUG DOSE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT SAFETY; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 79960555169     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2011.04.012     Document Type: Short Survey

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