Authors’ Response: Vitamin D Status and Redefining Serum PTH Reference Range in the Elderly
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Vitamin D and health status in elderly.
Recently, vitamin D has aroused considerable interest for several reasons. Many epidemiological studies have shown a widespread deficiency of vitamin D at all ages, and the recent finding that many organs and tissues have vitamin D receptors has fostered the clinical and biological relevance of vitamin D. Elderly people are at high risk for vitamin D deficiency if their life style entails few o...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0021-972X,1945-7197
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.87.2.8120