**Author details**

Teodoro Durá-Travé1,2,3\*, Fidel Gallinas-Victoriano2 , María Urretavizcaya-Martinez2 , Lotfi Ahmed-Mohamed<sup>2</sup> , María Malumbres-Chacón2 and Paula Moreno-González<sup>2</sup>

1 Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

2 Department of Pediatrics, Navarra Hospital Complex, Pamplona, Spain

3 Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdisNA), Pamplona, Spain

\*Address all correspondence to: tduratra@cfnavarra.es

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*Vitamin D Deficiency in Children*

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