Vitamin D and dementia risk: the cause and consequence story.

Am J Clin Nutr

From the Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China (YM); and Shandong Cancer Hospital (affiliated with Shandong University), Jinan, China (HY, e-mail:

Published: August 2017

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