Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration in subclinical carotid atherosclerosis

Anna Deleskog1, Olga Piksasova, Angela Silveira

  • 1From the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery (A.D., S.G, C.-G.Ö., J.Ö., A.H.), Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna (A.D., O.P., A.S., K.G., B.S., R.J.S., M.L.), Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine (K.L., B.G., U.d.F.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università di Milano & Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Milan, Italy (D.B., F.V., E.T.); Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland (J.K.); Foundation for Research in Health, Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland (R.R.); Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands (A.J.S.); Internal Medicine, Angiology and Arteriosclerosis Diseases, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy (E.M.); Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, Service Endocrinologie-Metabolisme, Groupe Hôpitalier Pitie-Salpetriere, Unités de Prévention Cardiovasculaire, Paris, France (P.G.); and Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London, London, United Kingdom (S.E.H.).

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