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Monday, July 07, 2008

Low vitamin D linked to increased risk of heart attack, death ... American Medical News

AMNews: July 14, 2008. Low vitamin D linked to increased risk of heart attack, death ... American Medical News:
"The weight of evidence connecting low vitamin D levels with poor health is getting heavier.
One study published in the June 9 Archives of Internal Medicine linked low levels of this vitamin in men to an increased risk of myocardial infarction. The other, in the June 23 issue of the same journal, found that being deficient in this vitamin more than doubled the risk of death from any cause.

'The evidence is just becoming overwhelming,' said Dr. Harald Dobnig, lead author on the second paper and professor of internal medicine at the Medical University of Graz in Austria.
These are the latest studies to identify low vitamin D as a significant health risk. Additional analyses completed on the cohort studied by Dr. Dobnig and due to be published in the future show that vitamin D status also influences the risk of cancer and stroke."/.../

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