Associations between Baseline Vitamin D Status, Dietary Intake of Vitamin D and Calcium on Bone Health in Caucasian and South Asian Women: Further analysis of the D2-D3 Study
Abstract:Vitamin D deficiency results in osteomalacia and leads to osteoporosis.(1,2) Hypo-vitaminosis D is prevalent in the UK and our D-FINES study has shown vitamin D deficiency to be more common in South Asian (SA) women than Caucasian (CA) women living in South England (3) . The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dietary vitamin D and calcium (Ca) intakes, vitamin D status and bone health indices among the women who took part in our D2-D3 study. The D2-D3 study was a vitamin D RCT previo… Show more
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