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Editorial
. 2020 Mar 21;12(3):841.
doi: 10.3390/nu12030841.

Vitamin D and Sport Performance

Beat Knechtle  1   2 , Pantelis Theodoros Nikolaidis  3   4
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Editorial

Vitamin D and Sport Performance

Beat Knechtle et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

Vitamin D seems to be very important for general health but also for athletic performance [...].

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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