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Knowledge, awareness, attitudes and sources of vitamin D deficiency and sufficiency in Saudi children

Fatimah M. Alshamsan and Bassam S. Bin-Abbas
Saudi Medical Journal May 2016, 37 (5) 579-583; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.5.14951
Fatimah M. Alshamsan
From the Nutrition Department (Alshamsan), King Saud University, Riyadh, and the Endocrinology and Diabetes (Bin-Abbas), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
BSc, MSc
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Bassam S. Bin-Abbas
From the Nutrition Department (Alshamsan), King Saud University, Riyadh, and the Endocrinology and Diabetes (Bin-Abbas), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 37 no. 5 579-583
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.5.14951
PubMed 
27146624

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received January 31, 2016
  • Accepted February 17, 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. Fatimah M. Alshamsan, BSc, MSc⇑ and
  2. Bassam S. Bin-Abbas, MD, FAAP
  1. From the Nutrition Department (Alshamsan), King Saud University, Riyadh, and the Endocrinology and Diabetes (Bin-Abbas), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprints request to: Dr. Fatimah M. Alshamsan, Nutrition Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: FatimahMohammedO.Alshamsan{at}uon.edu.au
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