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To the Editor: The recent study by Thomas et al. (March 19 issue)¹ aroused concern that a substantial proportion of U.S. adults may be deficient in vitamin D. In this Boston-area study, more than half of the patients studied had serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations 15 ng per milliliter (38 nmol per liter). The authors noted an absence of data about the vitamin D status of the general population.¹ To fill this gap, we offer recent findings from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988–1994), in which serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D was measured by radioimmunoassay (Incstar, Stillwater, Minn.) . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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