Effect of ozone variation on disease in Great Britain: II. Femoral neck fracture
Leach, J.F.; Beadle, P.C.; Pingstone, A.R.
Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine 49(8): 1014-1018
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0095-6562 PMID: 678242 Document Number: 128386
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.