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Vitamin D and The Risk of Death.

Posted on August 21, 2008

While reviewing my journals I again came across another study on Vitamin D but this time relating this vitamin to mortality or the risk of death in the general population. This study was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, August 15, 2008 issue._______________________________________________________________________________________Background In patients undergoing dialysis, therapy withcalcitriol or paricalcitol or other vitamin D agents is associatedwith reduced mortality. Observational data suggests that low25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (25[OH]D) are associated with diabetesmel...

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