Associations between Vitamin D level and hospitalizations with and without an infection in a national cohort of medicare beneficiaries

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 183, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 920-929

  Kempker, Jordan A ^a   Magee, Matthew J ^b   Cegielski, J Peter ^c   Martin, Greg S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

25 hydroxyvitamin D; hospitalization; infection; sepsis; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; VITAMIN D; 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D;

BODY CONDITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; RISK FACTOR; SERUM; VITAMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; PROBABILITY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BLOOD; BODY MASS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; ODDS RATIO; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VITAMIN D;

EID: 84971576982     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv306     Document Type: Article

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