Vitamin D Status Is a Biological Determinant of Health Disparities

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 643-651

  Weishaar, Tom ^a   Vergili, Joyce Marcley ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Division of Orthopaedic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES); Public health policy; Self rated health; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; VITAMIN D;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAMIN D; YOUNG ADULT;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84876711613     PISSN: 22122672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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