Link between community-acquired pneumonia and vitamin D levels in older patients
- 5 May 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
- Vol. 51 (4), 435-439
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-017-1237-z
Abstract
To investigate the correlation between the level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25-(OH)D] and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in elderly patients.Keywords
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