Month of birth, vitamin D and risk of immune-mediated disease: A case control study

BMC Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Disanto, Giulio ^a,b   Chaplin, George ^c   Morahan, Julia M ^a,b   Giovannoni, Gavin ^d   Hyppönen, Elina ^e   Ebers, George C ^a,b   Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a,b,d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROHN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREGNANCY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; UNITED KINGDOM; ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BLOOD; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VITAMIN D;

EID: 84863486051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-69     Document Type: Article

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