Vitamin D state of Asians living in Pakistan.
- 15 January 1983
- Vol. 286 (6360) , 182-184
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.286.6360.182
Abstract
Asians living in Pakistan have serum 25-hydroxycholecalciferol concentrations which are well within the normal range and significantly higher than in Asians resident in Britain. Clearly, Asians can maintain an adequate vitamin D state given an abundant supply of ultraviolet light, and the expression of vitamin D deficiency is an environmental and not a genetically determined characteristic. The risk of an Asian developing vitamin D deficiency increases after migration to Britain. The most efficient way to treat this is by supplementation with vitamin D.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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