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. 2019 May 10;10:1042. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.01042

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Copyright © 2019 Singh, Kumar and Al Khodor.

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Vitamin D deficiency reported in GCC countries. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), alliance of six Middle Eastern countries—Saudi Arabia (KSA), Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. The Vitamin D deficiency runs high in the multi-ethnic population of these countries with percentages as high as 86% in Qatar (66) other countries such as KSA (67), UAE (68), Oman (69), and Kuwait (70) follow closely similar alarmingly high rates of Vitamin D deficiency/Insufficiency. The GCC map used was obtained with copyright approval from: https://yourfreetemplates.com/free-middle-east-map/.