Summer and winter prevalence of vitamin D deficiency of young resident doctors in North India

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 280-284

  Singh, Surya Kumar ^a   Prakash, Ved ^a   Tiwari, Shalbha ^a   Daliparthy, Devi Pratyush ^a   Singh, Saurabh ^a   Jain, Pankaj ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

25(OH) vitamin D; Alkaline phosphatase; Hypovitaminosis D

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255185519     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: 17470080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2011.01553.x     Document Type: Article

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