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Vitamin D status and its adequacy in healthy Danish perimenopausal women: relationships to dietary intake, sun exposure and serum parathyroid hormone

  • Christine Brot (a1), Peter Vestergaard (a2), Niels Kolthoff (a3), Jeppe Gram (a4), Anne P. Hermann (a2) and Ole H. Sørensen (a1)...

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COPYRIGHT: © The Nutrition Society 2001

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*Corresponding author: Dr Christine Brot, The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Mørkhøj Bygade 19, DK-2860 Søborg, Denmark, fax +45 33 95 66 96, email cxb@fdir.dk

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