Diet, environmental factors, and lifestyle underlie the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in healthy adults in Scotland, and supplementation reduces the proportion that are severely deficient

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1535-1542

  Zgaga, Lina ^a   Theodoratou, Evropi ^a   Farrington, Susan M ^a   Agakov, Felix ^a   Tenesa, Albert ^a   Walker, Marion ^a   Knox, Susan ^b   Michael Wallace, A ^b   Cetnarskyj, Roseanne ^c   McNeill, Geraldine ^d   Kyle, Janet ^d   Porteous, Mary E ^a   Dunlop, Malcolm G ^a   Campbell, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c School of Nursing Midwifery and Social Care   (United Kingdom)

^d ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FISH MEAT; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LATITUDE; LIFESTYLE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SCOTLAND; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 79961137547     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.111.140012     Document Type: Article

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