A Preliminary Report of Vitamin D and Calcium Metabolism in Older African Americans

Involutional Osteoporosis

1986 • 1,873 citations

Aging decreases the capacity of human skin to produce vitamin D3.

1985 • 1,404 citations

INCREASED SKIN PIGMENT REDUCES THE CAPACITY OF SKIN TO SYNTHESISE VITAMIN D3

1982 • 1,154 citations

Evidence for alteration of the vitamin D-endocrine system in blacks.

1985 • 457 citations

Calcium nutrition and bone health in the elderly

1982 • 421 citations

Changes in Vertebral Bone Density in Black Girls and White Girls during Childhood and Puberty

1991 • 393 citations

Increase in serum bone gamma-carboxyglutamic acid protein with aging in women. Implications for the mechanism of age-related bone loss.

1983 • 358 citations

Ethnic and genetic differences in bone mass: a review with a hereditary vs environmental perspective

1989 • 300 citations

The Effects of Race and Body Habitus on Bone Mineral Density of the Radius, Hip, and Spine in Premenopausal Women*

1988 • 281 citations

Subclinical Vitamin D Deficiency in Postmenopausal Women with Low Vertebral Bone Mass*

1991 • 266 citations

UNDERNUTRITION, HYPOTHERMIA, AND INJURY IN ELDERLY WOMEN WITH FRACTURED FEMUR: AN INJURY RESPONSE TO ALTERED METABOLISM?

1983 • 259 citations

Hip fracture incidence among the old and very old: a population-based study of 745,435 cases.

1990 • 222 citations

Nutritional status of the elderly

1986 • 203 citations

OSTEOPOROSIS AND FRACTURE OF THE FEMORAL NECK IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN BANTU

1968 • 197 citations

Diminished Rates of Bone Formation in Normal Black Adults

1988 • 195 citations

1,25 Dihydroxy-Vitamin D_3 in Normal Man and Patients with Renal Failure

1974 • 182 citations

The Osteoporotic Syndrome

1983 • 163 citations

Calcium, Vitamin D, and Parathyroid Hormone Status in Young White and Black Women: Association with Racial Differences in Bone Mass*

1991 • 137 citations

EXPECTATIONS

1983 • 115 citations

Sex- and age-related changes in bone and serum osteocalcin

1990 • 100 citations

Nutrition and bone.

1990 • 26 citations

Nutrition and Bone

1990 • 22 citations

UCLA Geriatric Grand Rounds: Osteoporosis

1988 • 16 citations

A Place in the Sun Does Not Guarantee Adequate Vitamin D

1989 • 9 citations

Metabolic Bone Disease and Clinically Related Disorders

1991 • 3 citations