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A new study on cancer and vitamin D takes an important step in extending several decades of research that began with observations that cancer rates among similar groups of people were lower in southern latitudes than in northern ones.

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  • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)JeffreyDach
    JeffreyDach
    June 12, 2007, 7:30 p.m.

    Vitamin D deficiency has been reported in 57% of 290 medical inpatients in Massachusetts, 93% of 150 patients with overt musculoskeletal pain in Minnesota, 48% of patients with Multiple Sclerosis, 50% of patients with lupus and fibromyalgia, 42% of healthy adolescents, 40% of African American Women, and 62 % of the morbidly obese, 83% of 360 patients with low back pain in Saudi Arabia.

    Diseases Caused By, or Associated With Vitamin D Deficiency: Osteoporosis, Hypertension, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Depression, Epilepsy, Type One Diabetes, Insulin resistance, Autoimmune Diseases, Migraine Headache, PolyCystic Ovary Disease (PCOS), Musculoskeletal and bone pain, Psoriasis, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

    For more information see my newsletter:

    http://jeffreydach.com/2007/06/10/vitamin-d-def...

    regards,

    Jeffrey Dach MD

    http://www.drdach.com

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