Vitamin D Status in Veterans with inflammatory bowel disease: Relationship to Health care costs and services

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 711-714

  Atia, Antwan ^a   Murthy, Ravindra ^b   Bailey, Beth A ^a   Manning, Todd ^b   Garrett, Linda L ^c   Youssef, Dima ^b   Peiris, Alan N ^a,b  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b James H Quillen VA Medical Center   (United States)

^c EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D; DRUG DERIVATIVE; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VETERAN; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VETERANS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 80051621823     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00371     Document Type: Article

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