Independent Association of Circulating Vitamin D Metabolites with Anemia Risk in Patients Scheduled for Cardiac Surgery

• Jana B. Ernst ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jana B. Ernst, Armin Zittermann

  Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

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• Tobias Becker ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

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• Joachim Kuhn ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute for Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

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• Jan F. Gummert ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

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• Armin Zittermann

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jana B. Ernst, Armin Zittermann

  * E-mail: azittermann@hdz-nrw.de

  Affiliation Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

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