Association between serum vitamin D deficiency and visceral fat indices in adolescents: The Ewha Birth and growth cohort study

Hyelim Lee; Hyunjin Park; Seunghee Jun; Hyeseung Jang; Young Sun Hong; Kyunghee Jung-Choi; Hye Ah Lee; Hyesook Park

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0335507

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Association between serum vitamin D deficiency and visceral fat indices in adolescents: The Ewha Birth and growth cohort study

Hyelim Lee,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Graduate program in System Health Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Hyunjin Park,

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Graduate program in System Health Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Seunghee Jun,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Graduate program in System Health Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Hyeseung Jang,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Graduate program in System Health Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Young Sun Hong,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8552-9066

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Kyunghee Jung-Choi,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Hye Ah Lee,

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Clinical Trial Center, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4051-0350

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Hyesook Park

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: hpark@ewha.ac.kr

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Graduate program in System Health Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9359-6522

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Association between serum vitamin D deficiency and visceral fat indices in adolescents: The Ewha Birth and growth cohort study

Hyelim Lee,
Hyunjin Park,
Seunghee Jun,
Hyeseung Jang,
Young Sun Hong,
Kyunghee Jung-Choi,
Hye Ah Lee,
Hyesook Park

Published: October 31, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0335507

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