Do low vitamin D levels cause problems of waste removal in patients with SLE?

Rheumatology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 585-587

  Munoz, Luis E ^a   Schiller, Martin ^b   Zhao, Yi ^a,c   Voll, Reinhard E ^a,d   Schett, Georg ^a   Herrmann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; CALCIFEDIOL; CALCITRIOL; COLECALCIFEROL; VITAMIN D;

APOPTOSIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PHAGOCYTOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLECALCIFEROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84863363925     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ker334     Document Type: Editorial

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