Vitamin D intake is low and hypovitaminosis D common in healthy 9− to 15-year-old Finnish girls
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Hypovitaminosis D in healthy schoolchildren.
BACKGROUND Vitamin D is essential for skeletal growth, but there are currently no guidelines for vitamin D supplementation after infancy. This study investigates vitamin D insufficiency in healthy children. METHODS Children ages 10 to 16 years from 3 private schools in Beirut, Lebanon, with differing socioeconomic status (SES) were studied: 169 in the spring of 1999 and 177 in the following f...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0954-3007,1476-5640
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1600844