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A global representation of vitamin D status in healthy populations: reply to comment by Saadi

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Conflicts of interest

Manfred Eggersdorfer and Elisabeth Stöcklin are employed by DSM Nutritional Products Ltd. Cyrus Cooper has received honoraria and consulting fees from Amgen, Eli Lilly, Medtronic, Merck, Novartis, and Servier. All the other authors have nothing to disclose.

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  1. Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, 711 Washington Street, Boston, MA, 02111, USA

    B. Dawson-Hughes

  2. International Osteoporosis Foundation, Nyon, Switzerland

    D. A. Wahl, D. D. Pierroz & J. Stenmark

  3. MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton and NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    C. Cooper

  4. NorthWest Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Western Health, St. Albans, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    P. R. Ebeling

  5. Nutrition Science and Advocacy, and Human Nutrition Research and Development, DSM Nutritional Products, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

    M. Eggersdorfer & E. Stöcklin

  6. Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Mannheim Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

    J. Hilger & K. Hoffmann

  7. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Toronto, St Michael’s Hospital Health Centre, Toronto, Canada

    R. Josse

  8. Medanta Medicity, Sector 38, Gurgaon, India

    A. Mithal

  9. WHO Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, UK

    J. A. Kanis

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Wahl, D.A., Cooper, C., Ebeling, P.R. et al. A global representation of vitamin D status in healthy populations: reply to comment by Saadi. Arch Osteoporos 8, 122 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11657-013-0122-7

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