P Knekt, M Laaksonen, C Mattila, T … - Epidemiology, 2008 - journals.lww.com Methods: Two nested case-control studies, collected by the Finnish Mobile Clinic
in 1973-1980, were pooled for analysis. The study populations consisted of men
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NG Forouhi, AC Jian'an Luan, BJ Boucher, … - Diabetes, 2008 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly cited, the use is
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E Liu, JB Meigs, AG Pittas, NM McKeown, CD … - Journal of Nutrition, 2009 - Am Soc Nutrition We examined the cross-sectional association between plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D
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LG Danescu, S Levy, J Levy - Endocrine, 2009 - Springer Abstract Better understanding of the physiological role of the vitamin-D system,
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- ►diabetesjournals.org NG Forouhi, J Luan, A Cooper, BJ Boucher, … - Diabetes, 2008 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS—Age-adjusted baseline mean serum 25(OH)D was greater in men (64.5
nmol/l [95% CI 61.2–67.9]) than women (57.2 nmol/l [54.4,60.0]) and varied
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R Scragg - Diabetes, 2008 - Am Diabetes Assoc One of these options—vitamin D—is addressed in the article by Forouhi et al.
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