Reply to William B. Grant

Sarah Allinson; Monika Asmuss; Cornelia Baldermann; Joan Bentzen; David Buller; Nathalie Gerber; Adele C. Green; Ruediger Greinert; Michael Kimlin; Julie Kunrath; Ruediger Matthes; Christiane Pölz-Viol; Eva Rehfuess; Constanze Rossman; Natalie Schüz; Craig Sinclair; Emilie Van Deventer; Ann Webb; Wolfgang Weiss; Gunde Ziegelberger

doi:10.1097/HP.0b013e318273aa29

Reply to William B. Grant

Sarah Allinson^*, Monika Asmuss, Cornelia Baldermann, Joan Bentzen, David Buller, Nathalie Gerber, Adele C. Green, Ruediger Greinert, Michael Kimlin, Julie Kunrath, Ruediger Matthes, Christiane Pölz-Viol, Eva Rehfuess, Constanze Rossman, Natalie Schüz, Craig Sinclair, Emilie Van Deventer, Ann Webb, Wolfgang Weiss, Gunde Ziegelberger

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Dear Editors

THE UVI working group acknowledges the contribution of Vitamin D to bone health as stated in our paper. However, we concluded that an optimal level of Vitamin D for humans has not yet been established with any certainty. Evidence of the health benefits of Vitamin D unrelated to bone health also has not been unequivocally documented (for a comprehensive review on dietary reference intakes, see www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13050). Contrary to Grant’s views, there is scientific agreement that ecological studies should not be the basis of recommendations to the public, since any observed associations are easily confounded and therefore potentially unreliable.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	115-116
Number of pages	2
Journal	Health Physics
Volume	104
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/HP.0b013e318273aa29
Publication status	Published - Jan 2013
Externally published	Yes

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Allinson, S., Asmuss, M., Baldermann, C., Bentzen, J., Buller, D., Gerber, N., Green, A. C., Greinert, R., Kimlin, M., Kunrath, J., Matthes, R., Pölz-Viol, C., Rehfuess, E., Rossman, C., Schüz, N., Sinclair, C., Van Deventer, E., Webb, A., Weiss, W., & Ziegelberger, G. (2013). Reply to William B. Grant. Health Physics, 104(1), 115-116. https://doi.org/10.1097/HP.0b013e318273aa29

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