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Letter to Editor: Inaccuracies in relating 25-hydroxyvitamin D to ischemic heart disease

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    Reinhold Vieth

  2. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, M5G 1X5

    Reinhold Vieth

  3. Department of Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, USA

    D. Sudhaker Rao

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Vieth, R., Rao, D.S. Letter to Editor: Inaccuracies in relating 25-hydroxyvitamin D to ischemic heart disease. Eur J Epidemiol 18, 461–462 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024222208492

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