Vitamin D-binding protein and vitamin D status of black Americans and white Americans.

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Published in N Engl J Med on November 21, 2013

Authors

Camille E Powe1, Michele K Evans, Julia Wenger, Alan B Zonderman, Anders H Berg, Michael Nalls, Hector Tamez, Dongsheng Zhang, Ishir Bhan, S Ananth Karumanchi, Neil R Powe, Ravi Thadhani

Author Affiliations

1: From the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (C.E.P.), Division of Nephrology, Massachusetts General Hospital (J.W., H.T., I.B., R.T.), Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School (A.H.B.), Division of Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (D.Z., S.A.K.), and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (D.Z., S.A.K.) - all in Boston; the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore (M.K.E., A.B.Z.); the Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (M.N.); and the Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (N.R.P.).

Associated clinical trials:

Follicular Fluid, Bioavailable Vitamin D and Embryo Quality Markers | NCT03073720

Serum, Dietary and Supplemental Vitamin D's Association With Cognitive Decline | NCT03320109

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