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- Title
Relationship between vitamin D status, body composition and physical exercise of adolescent girls in Beijing.
- Authors
Foo, L H; Zhang, Q; Zhu, K; Ma, G; Trube, A; Greenfield, H; Fraser, D R
- Abstract
Little is known about the prevalence of actual vitamin D deficiency in healthy school-aged adolescents, particularly in China. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of hypovitaminosis D and to identify whether there was any association between vitamin D status, body composition and physical exercise in 323 Chinese adolescent girls in Beijing, China (40 degrees N).
- Publication
Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2009, Vol 20, Issue 3, p417
- ISSN
1433-2965
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00198-008-0667-2