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Vitamin D and autoimmune rheumatic diseases

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  1. Dipartimento di Medicina, Istituto di Medicina Interna B, Policlinico G.B. Rossi, P.le Scuro, 37134, Verona, Italy

    Paola Caramaschi, Alessandra Dalla Gassa, Viviana Ravagnani, Ilaria Tinazzi, Giovanni Barausse, Lisa M. Bambara & Domenico Biasi

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy

    Orazio Ruzzenente

  3. Dipartimento di Medicina, Ospedale Sacro Cuore, Negrar, Verona, Italy

    Alessandro Volpe

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Caramaschi, P., Dalla Gassa, A., Ruzzenente, O. et al. Vitamin D and autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Clin Rheumatol 30, 443–444 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-011-1683-8

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