Ethnic Dress, Vitamin D Intake, and Calcaneal Bone Health in Young Women in the United Kingdom

Robert Knoss, Lewis Halsey, Sue Reeves

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Abstract

Clothing styles that conceal skin from ultraviolet sun radiation contribute to vitamin D deficiency, especially in veiled female minorities in high latitudes. This is the first research into possible effects of ethnic dress on the os calcis and the first
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)250-254
JournalJOURNAL OF CLINICAL DENSITOMETRY
Volume15
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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