25‐hydroxyvitamin D levels in African American and Nigerian women

African Americans (AA) have substantially lower levels of circulating 25‐hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) than whites. We compared population‐based samples of 25(OH)D in women of African descent from Nigeria and metropolitan Chicago.

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