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Perspective on vitamin D
Hypovitaminosis D and disease: consequence rather than cause?
BMJ 2012; 345 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e5706 (Published 24 August 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;345:e5706
- Rousseau Gama, chemical pathologist and honorary professor of laboratory medicine1,
- Jenna L Waldron, senior clinical scientist1,
- Helen L Ashby, specialist registrar in chemical pathology and metabolic medicine1,
- Michael P Cornes, senior clinical scientist1,
- Julia Bechervaise, academic FY21,
- Cyrus Razavi, academic FY21,
- Osmond L Thomas, consultant orthopaedic surgeon1,
- Sanjiv Chugh, consultant orthopaedic surgeon1,
- Shreeram Deshpande, consultant orthopaedic surgeon1,
- Clare Ford, consultant clinical scientist1
- 1New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton WV10 0QP, UK
- rousseau.gama{at}nhs.net
In their editorial calling for vitamin D to be put into perspective Harvey and Cooper do not consider the possibility, supportive to their view, that hypovitaminosis D is the consequence rather than the cause of disease.1 We recently completed a study showing unequivocally that serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D is a negative acute phase reactant.
We measured serum C reactive protein …
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