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Vitamin D status and insulin resistance among young obese Saudi females

Hala M. Abdelkarem, Mervat A. El-Sherif and Sahar B. Gomaa
Saudi Medical Journal May 2016, 37 (5) 561-566; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.5.13581
Hala M. Abdelkarem
From the Nutrition Department (Abdelkarem), National Research Center, Cairo, Food Technology Research Institute (El-Sherif), Department of Biochemistry (Gomaa), National Organization for Drug Control and Research, Giza, Egypt, and the Department of Biochemistry (Abdelkarem, El-Sherif, Gomaa), College of Science, University of Aljouf, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mervat A. El-Sherif
From the Nutrition Department (Abdelkarem), National Research Center, Cairo, Food Technology Research Institute (El-Sherif), Department of Biochemistry (Gomaa), National Organization for Drug Control and Research, Giza, Egypt, and the Department of Biochemistry (Abdelkarem, El-Sherif, Gomaa), College of Science, University of Aljouf, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sahar B. Gomaa
From the Nutrition Department (Abdelkarem), National Research Center, Cairo, Food Technology Research Institute (El-Sherif), Department of Biochemistry (Gomaa), National Organization for Drug Control and Research, Giza, Egypt, and the Department of Biochemistry (Abdelkarem, El-Sherif, Gomaa), College of Science, University of Aljouf, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 37 no. 5 561-566
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.5.13581
PubMed 
27146620

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received September 28, 2015
  • Accepted January 26, 2016
  • Published online May 1, 2016.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Hala M. Abdelkarem, PhD⇑,
  2. Mervat A. El-Sherif, PhD and
  3. Sahar B. Gomaa, PhD
  1. From the Nutrition Department (Abdelkarem), National Research Center, Cairo, Food Technology Research Institute (El-Sherif), Department of Biochemistry (Gomaa), National Organization for Drug Control and Research, Giza, Egypt, and the Department of Biochemistry (Abdelkarem, El-Sherif, Gomaa), College of Science, University of Aljouf, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Hala M. Abdelkarem, Nutrition Department, National Research Center, Al Buhouth, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt. E-mail: halamokhtar61{at}yahoo.com
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