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dc.contributor.authorElizabeth Kagotho, Geoffrey Omuse, Nancy Okinda, Peter Ojwang
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-21T10:16:27Z
dc.date.available2022-01-21T10:16:27Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.maseno.ac.ke/handle/123456789/4450
dc.description.abstractVitamin D has been known since the twentieth Century for its benefits in bone health. Recent observational studies have demonstrated its benefits in infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and non-communicable diseases such as diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. This has led to a dramatic increase in testing among adults. The cut-offs for vitamin D deficiency have been debated for decades and the current cut off is derived from a Caucasian population. Studies done among black African adults in Africa are few with vitamin D deficiency ranging from 5 to 91%. A few cut- offs have correlated vitamin D deficiency to physiological markers such as parathyroid hormone (PTH), calcium and phosphate with varying results.en_US
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_US
dc.subjectVitamin D deficiency, Cut-offs, Kenya, Africaen_US
dc.titleVitamin D status in healthy black African adults at a tertiary hospital in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross sectional studyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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