Vitamin D status of the elderly in the Vaal region, South Africa

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作者
Oldewage-Theron, Wilna [1 ,2 ]
Grobler, Christa [3 ]
机构
[1] Texas Tech Univ, Dept Nutr Sci, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA
[2] Univ Free State, Dept Sustainable Food Syst & Dev, Bloemfontein, South Africa
[3] Vaal Univ Technol, Dept Hlth Sci, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa
关键词
elderly; symptoms; vitamin D;
D O I
10.1080/16070658.2022.2041887
中图分类号
R15 [营养卫生、食品卫生]; TS201 [基础科学];
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100403 ;
摘要
Vitamin D status was determined in a sample of 79 elderly people and the results showed that 38% of the elderly had inadequate vitamin D status that was accompanied by various symptoms associated with vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency.
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