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Authors’ response to Young and Hopkins: vitamin D and lung function

We thank Dr RP Young and Ms RJ Hopkins for their interest in our article and their constructive comments.1 We agree with Dr RP Young and Ms RJ Hopkins that our analyses may suggest a threshold effect. However, we believe that more studies are needed before we firmly can assume a threshold effect. It is true that that the association between vitamin D level and FEV1% predicted was mirrored by a corresponding association between …

S. Bojesen | B. Nordestgaard | P. Lange | J. Freiberg | S. Afzal

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