Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations are associated with greater all-cause mortality in older community-dwelling women

Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, MD 21287, USA

Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA

Longitudinal Studies Section, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD 21225, USA

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

Epidemiology and Demography Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA

Received 29 May 2009; received in revised form 16 July 2009; accepted 16 July 2009.

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