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

Robert Knoss; Lewis Halsey; Sue Reeves

doi:10.1016/j.jocd.2011.09.005

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

Robert Knoss
, Lewis Halsey
, Sue Reeves

School of Life and Health Sciences

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	250-254
Journal	JOURNAL OF CLINICAL DENSITOMETRY
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocd.2011.09.005
Publication status	Published - 2012

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