Suboptimal Vitamin D Status in a Population-Based Study of Asian Children: Prevalence and Relation to Allergic Diseases and Atopy

• Tsung-Chieh Yao ,

  * E-mail: yao@adm.cgmh.org.tw (TCY); long@adm.cgmh.org.tw (JLH)

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Asthma, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan

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• Yu-Ling Tu,

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Asthma, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Su-Wei Chang,

  Affiliation Clinical Informatics and Medical Statistics Research Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Hui-Ju Tsai,

  Affiliations Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institutes of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Genome Medicine, Kaohsiung University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Po-Wen Gu,

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Hsian-Chen Ning,

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Man-Chin Hua,

  Affiliations Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan

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• Sui-Ling Liao,

  Affiliations Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan

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• Ming-Han Tsai,

  Affiliations Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan

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• Chih-Yung Chiu,

  Affiliations Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan

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• Shen-Hao Lai,

  Affiliations Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Kuo-Wei Yeh,

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Asthma, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan

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• Jing-Long Huang, for the PATCH study group

  * E-mail: yao@adm.cgmh.org.tw (TCY); long@adm.cgmh.org.tw (JLH)

  Membership of the PATCH (Prediction of Allergies in Taiwanese CHildren) study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Asthma, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan

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