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Vitamin D Deficiency Is Common in Ghana despite Abundance of Sunlight: A Multicentre Comparative Cross-Sectional Study

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D is a steroid hormone important for the normal functioning of the body. It is produced through skin exposure to sunlight and from the diet. Although Ghana is located in the tropics where sunlight is abundant, factors like culture, diet, skin pigmentation, variation in the ozone...

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Autores principales:	Sakyi, Samuel Asamoah, Antwi, Maxwell Hubert, Ahenkorah Fondjo, Linda, Laing, Edwin Ferguson, Ephraim, Richard K. Dadzie, Kwarteng, Alexander, Amoani, Benjamin, Appiah, Seth Christopher, Oppong Afranie, Bright, Opoku, Stephen, Buckman, Tonnies Abeku
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Hindawi 2021
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8213472/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34221502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9987141

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