%0 Journal Article %T Vitamin D deficiency in sickle cell disease patients in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia %A Ali AlJama %A Ghada Alqudaihi %A Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Dabbous %A Mohammed AlKhalifah %J Archive of "Annals of Saudi Medicine". %D 2018 %R 10.5144/0256-4947.2018.130 %X Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is a major global health problem. In sickle cell disease (SCD), VDD is highly prevalent, reaching up to 96% of populations. VDD may contribute to many of the complications of SCD %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074368/