Vitamin D deficiency and depression: Causal relationship or artifact?

BioFactors

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 317-319

  Rastmanesh, Reza ^a   Beauchet, Olivier ^b   Annweiler, Cédric ^b,c,d  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL; VITAMIN D;

BODY MASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEPRESSION; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXERCISE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

AGE FACTORS; ARTIFACTS; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84867700223     PISSN: 09516433     EISSN: 18728081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biof.1028     Document Type: Letter

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