## Abstract Vitamin D deficiency is common among patients with myocardial diseases because sunβinduced vitamin D production in the skin and dietary intake of vitamin D is often insufficient. Knockout mice for the vitamin D receptor develop myocardial hypertrophy and dysfunction. It has also been sh
Vitamin D deficiency and the endocrine pancreas
β Scribed by P. Dandona; O. Gedik
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 194 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-186X
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