Vitamin D status and its association with parathyroid hormone concentrations in women of child-bearing age living in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur.

• Main Authors: Green, Timothy J, Skeaff, Clark Murray, Rockell, Jennifer E.P, Venn, Bernard J., Lambert, A., Todd, J., Khor, Geok Lin, Loh, Su Peng, Muslimatun, Siti, Agustina , Rina, Whiting, Susan Joyce
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2008
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17607/1/Vitamin%20D%20status%20and%20its%20association%20with%20parathyroid%20hormone%20concentrations%20in%20women%20of%20child.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17607/; http://npg.nature.com

Objective:To describe the vitamin D status of women living in two Asian cities, – Jakarta (6°S) and Kuala-Lumpur (2°N), to examine the association between plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D and parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentrations, and to determine a threshold for plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D above which...