Vitamin D status of adults from tropical australia determined using two different laboratory assays: Implications for public health messages

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 935-943

  Nowak, Madeleine ^a   Harrison, Simone L ^a   Buettner, Petra G ^a   Kimlin, Michael ^a,b   Porter, David ^a,c   Kennedy, Lee ^a   Speare, Rick ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c TOWNSVILLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASON; STANDARD; SUNLIGHT; TROPIC CLIMATE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUEENSLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SUNLIGHT; TROPICAL CLIMATE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 79960559966     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2011.00941.x     Document Type: Article

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