The positive impact of general Vitamin D food fortification policy on Vitamin D status in a representative adult Finnish population: Evidence from an 11-y follow-up based on standardized 25-hydroxyVitamin D data

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1512-1520

  Jääskeläinen, Tuija ^a   Itkonen, Suvi T ^b   Lundqvist, Annamari ^a   Erkkola, Maijaliisa ^b   Koskela, Tapani ^c   Lakkala, Kaisa ^c   Dowling, Kirsten G ^d   Hull, George L J ^d   Kröger, Heikki ^e   Karppinen, Jaro ^f,g   Kyllönen, Eero ^f   Härkänen, Tommi ^a   Cashman, Kevin D ^d   Männistö, Satu ^a   Lamberg Allardt, Christel ^b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^e KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

25 hydroxyVitaminD; General fortification; Population survey; Standardization; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; FOOD; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; NUTRITION POLICY; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; FORTIFIED FOOD; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VERY ELDERLY; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 85020534798     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.116.151415     Document Type: Article

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