Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 |
Is vitamin D the missing link between childhood obesity and adenovirus-36 infection?
Tirang R. Neyestani1,*, Bahareh Nikooyeh1
- 1Laboratory of Nutrition Research, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute and Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Corresponding Author
Tirang R. Neyestani, neytr@yahoo.com ; t.neyestani@sbmu.ac.ir
Received Date: December 11, 2020
Accepted Date: March 16, 2021
Neyestani TR, Nikooyeh B. Is vitamin D the missing link between childhood obesity and adenovirus-36 infection?. J Clin Pediatr Neonatol. 2021; 1(1):23-25.
Copyright: © 2021 Neyestani TR, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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