Vitamin D and multiple health outcomes: Umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies and randomised trials

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 348, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Theodoratou, Evropi ^a   Tzoulaki, Ioanna ^b,c   Zgaga, Lina ^d   Ioannidis, John P A ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCITRIOL; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLORECTAL CANCER; DENTAL CARIES; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; METABOLIC DISORDER; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RICKETS; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VAGINITIS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VITAMIN D; VITAMINS;

EID: 84897987332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g2035     Document Type: Article

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