Hospital admissions for vitamin D related conditions and subsequent immune-mediated disease: Record-linkage studies

BMC Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a,b   Goldacre, Raph ^c   Disanto, Giulio ^a   Giovannoni, Gavin ^b   Goldacre, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospital episode statistics; Immune disease; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADDISON DISEASE; ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CELIAC DISEASE; CHRONIC ACTIVE HEPATITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYXEDEMA; OSTEOMALACIA; PEMPHIGOID; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RICKETS; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THYROTOXICOSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880959251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-171     Document Type: Article

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