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Vitamin D deficiency and biochemical variations among urban Saudi adolescent girls according to season

Riad A. Sulimani, Ashry G. Mohammed, Assim A. Alfadda, Suliman N. Alshehri, Abdulaziz M. Al-Othman, Nasser M. Al-Daghri, David A. Hanley and Aliya A. Khan
Saudi Medical Journal September 2016, 37 (9) 1002-1008; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.9.15248
Riad A. Sulimani
From the Department of Medicine (Sulimani, Alfadda), Community and Family Medicine (Mohammed), Obesity Research Center (Alfadda), College of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences (Al-Othman), College of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry (Al-Daghri), College of Science, King Saud University, the Department of School Health (Alshehri), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Hanley), McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Calgary, and the Divisions of Endocrinology and Geriatrics (Khan), McMaster University, Oakville, Canada
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Ashry G. Mohammed
From the Department of Medicine (Sulimani, Alfadda), Community and Family Medicine (Mohammed), Obesity Research Center (Alfadda), College of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences (Al-Othman), College of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry (Al-Daghri), College of Science, King Saud University, the Department of School Health (Alshehri), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Hanley), McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Calgary, and the Divisions of Endocrinology and Geriatrics (Khan), McMaster University, Oakville, Canada
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Assim A. Alfadda
From the Department of Medicine (Sulimani, Alfadda), Community and Family Medicine (Mohammed), Obesity Research Center (Alfadda), College of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences (Al-Othman), College of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry (Al-Daghri), College of Science, King Saud University, the Department of School Health (Alshehri), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Hanley), McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Calgary, and the Divisions of Endocrinology and Geriatrics (Khan), McMaster University, Oakville, Canada
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Suliman N. Alshehri
From the Department of Medicine (Sulimani, Alfadda), Community and Family Medicine (Mohammed), Obesity Research Center (Alfadda), College of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences (Al-Othman), College of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry (Al-Daghri), College of Science, King Saud University, the Department of School Health (Alshehri), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Hanley), McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Calgary, and the Divisions of Endocrinology and Geriatrics (Khan), McMaster University, Oakville, Canada
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Abdulaziz M. Al-Othman
From the Department of Medicine (Sulimani, Alfadda), Community and Family Medicine (Mohammed), Obesity Research Center (Alfadda), College of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences (Al-Othman), College of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry (Al-Daghri), College of Science, King Saud University, the Department of School Health (Alshehri), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Hanley), McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Calgary, and the Divisions of Endocrinology and Geriatrics (Khan), McMaster University, Oakville, Canada
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Nasser M. Al-Daghri
From the Department of Medicine (Sulimani, Alfadda), Community and Family Medicine (Mohammed), Obesity Research Center (Alfadda), College of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences (Al-Othman), College of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry (Al-Daghri), College of Science, King Saud University, the Department of School Health (Alshehri), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Hanley), McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Calgary, and the Divisions of Endocrinology and Geriatrics (Khan), McMaster University, Oakville, Canada
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David A. Hanley
From the Department of Medicine (Sulimani, Alfadda), Community and Family Medicine (Mohammed), Obesity Research Center (Alfadda), College of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences (Al-Othman), College of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry (Al-Daghri), College of Science, King Saud University, the Department of School Health (Alshehri), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Hanley), McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Calgary, and the Divisions of Endocrinology and Geriatrics (Khan), McMaster University, Oakville, Canada
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Aliya A. Khan
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vol. 37 no. 9 1002-1008
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.9.15248
PubMed 
27570857

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received April 21, 2016
  • Accepted June 22, 2016
  • Published online September 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.

Author Information

  1. Riad A. Sulimani, MD, FRCPC⇑,
  2. Ashry G. Mohammed, MBChB, DrPH,
  3. Assim A. Alfadda, FRCPC, FACE,
  4. Suliman N. Alshehri, MD, PhD,
  5. Abdulaziz M. Al-Othman, MSc, PhD,
  6. Nasser M. Al-Daghri, MSc, PhD,
  7. David A. Hanley, MD, FRCPC and
  8. Aliya A. Khan, FRCPC, FACP
  1. From the Department of Medicine (Sulimani, Alfadda), Community and Family Medicine (Mohammed), Obesity Research Center (Alfadda), College of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences (Al-Othman), College of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry (Al-Daghri), College of Science, King Saud University, the Department of School Health (Alshehri), Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Hanley), McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Calgary, and the Divisions of Endocrinology and Geriatrics (Khan), McMaster University, Oakville, Canada
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Riad A. Sulimani, Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: rsulimani{at}ksu.edu.sa
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