Evaluating Vitamin D levels in Rheumatic Heart Disease patients and matched controls: A case-control study from Nepal

• Lene Thorup ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lenethorup@clin.au.dk

  Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Public Health, Center for Global Health (GloHAU), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5208-8353

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• Sophie Amalie Hamann,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Center for Global Health (GloHAU), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Ashish Tripathee,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal

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• Bhagawan Koirala,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Bishal Gyawali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Section of Global Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Nepal Development Society, Chitwan, Nepal

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• Dinesh Neupane,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nepal Development Society, Chitwan, Nepal, Department of Epidemiology, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Cleonice C. Mota,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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• Per Kallestrup,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Center for Global Health (GloHAU), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Vibeke E. Hjortdal

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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