Is Vitamin D inadequacy in early life an instance of the barker hypothesis?

Nutrition Today

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 14-17

  Heaney, Robert P ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84957818433     PISSN: 0029666X     EISSN: 15389839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NT.0000000000000138     Document Type: Article

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