Effect of ozone variation on disease in Great Britain: II. Femoral neck fracture.
During the period 1951-72 ozone variation had produced about a 20% decrease in UV radiation at the wavelengths necessary for the production of vitamin D3 in the human skin. Study of the mortality associated with femoral neck fracture, a symptom now linked to vitamin D deficiency disease, shows similar trends, but of opposite sign, to the trends of skin cancer incidence and mortality over the same period.
D005265:Femoral Neck Fractures / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D010126:Ozone; D012621:Seasons; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays / Q000009:adverse effects; D006113:United Kingdom
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