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Circulating vitamin D concentration and risk of seven cancers: a Mendelian randomization study
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Objective
To determine if circulating concentrations of vitamin D are causally associated with risk of cancer. There is debate on whether vitamin D status is a cause of disease or just a correlate marker of overall health. Evidence from in-vitro and animal model studies supports an anti-neoplastic role of vitamin D, but epidemiological studies and randomized controlled trials have yielded mixed results.
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To overcome potential limitations in epidemiological s...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/bmj.j4761
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- BMJ Publishing Group
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- BMJ More from this journal
- Volume:
- 359
- Pages:
- :j4761
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-26
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1756-1833
- ISSN:
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0959-8138
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pubs:730795
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2017-09-27
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- Key et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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