Vitamin Deficiency

Dealing with Vitamin 'D'-eficiency now could prevent disease in the future
South County Mail
Causes of Vitamin D deficiency include: sunscreen use, darker skin pigment, aging, liver or kidney disease, excess animal protein in the diet, low UVB exposure due to climates and seasons, certain medications (anticonvulsants, steroids, Alli and HIV ...

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Yourwellness Magazine Explores Effects of Vitamin C Deficiency During ...
Watch List News (press release)
With a new study finding that vitamin C may help prevent lung problems in babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy, Yourwellness Magazine reported on the damaging effects a vitamin C deficiency during pregnancy can have on a foetus. London ...

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Medscape
Low Vitamin D Exacerbates Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Medscape
Medscape
Considerable evidence supports a role for vitamin D in inflammatory bowel disease, Dr. Ananthakrishnan pointed out during his presentation at the Presidential Plenary Symposium. "In animal models, deficiency of vitamin D increases susceptibility to ...

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Vitamin D Deficient Tx Patients Benefit from Oral Cholecalciferol
Renal and Urology News
ISTANBUL—Monthly bolus oral cholecalciferol is a safe and effective treatment for vitamin D repletion in renal transplant patients with longstanding vitamin D deficiency, according to results presented at the 50th Congress of the European Renal ...

7DAYS
Vitamin D deficiency causing more women to seek hair transplants in the Gulf
7DAYS
The ladies are losing their hair because of vitamin D deficiency and are joining their male relatives at transplant clinics. Hair transplant expert Dr Melike Kulahci, based in Istanbul, Turkey, sees patients from all over the world and admits she was ...
Vitamin D vital to prevent alopecia: hair transplant expertGulf Today

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Ames: Vitamins, minerals do matter
Laney Tower
The lecture centered around the connection between vitamin and mineral deficiencies and aging-associated diseases such as cancer, cognitive decline and heart disease. He proposed that when faced with vitamin and mineral deficiencies, the human body ...

Doctors Health Press Reports on Studies: Vitamin D Deficiency Could Cause ...
Houston Chronicle
Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation and publisher of various natural health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is reporting on two new studies finding that ...

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Doctors Health Press Reports on Studies: Vitamin D Deficiency Could Cause ...
PR Web (press release)
As Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin (http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/general-health-2/how-this-vitamin-level-affects-healthy-lungs) notes, one trial conducted at the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. looked at vitamin D deficiency and respiratory ...

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Kids' vitamin deficiency signs - Delta Optimist
Delta-Optimist
Other symptoms include dry eyes, skin scaling and respiratory infections. . Vitamin B6: Hyperactivity and impulsiveness are often blamed on an underlying medical condition, such as ADHD. But such conditions may be the result of a deficiency in vitamin B6.

Telegraph.co.uk
Are sun-deprived expats getting enough vitamin D?
Telegraph.co.uk
The Health Department is now supporting research into the role of vitamin D deficiency in asthma, one of few medical conditions becoming more prevalent for no certain reason. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health recently called on family ...

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Vit D deficiency is 'Aussie epidemic'
BigPond News
'It is important for Australians to realise this is a major health issue,' says the Boston professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics, who helped highlight vitamin D deficiency as a global health problem. Most people know vitamin D is important ...

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5 weird signs you're vitamin-deficient
Fox News
When your body is trying to tell you something—for example, that you're skimping on critical vitamins—it may go to some strange lengths. "With today's diet of processed foods, it's easy to become vitamin-deficient, either by not eating enough of the ...

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Vit D deficiency is 'Aussie epidemic' - Ninemsn
Ninemsn
"It is important for Australians to realise this is a major health issue," says the Boston professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics, who helped highlight vitamin D deficiency as a global health problem. Most people know vitamin D is important ...

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Medscape
Vitamin D Levels Linked to Respiratory Disease - Medscape
Medscape
Having severe vitamin D deficiency may put people aged 65 years and older at more than twice the risk of having self-reported respiratory disease, according to an article published online May 6 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. However ...

House Call: Having fun in the sun for vitamin D's sake
SuburbanJournals
But if you are someone who avoids the outdoors, has dark skin, or eats a restrictive diet, then you might be at risk of developing a vitamin D deficiency. What does vitamin D do for me? It is widely known that vitamin D helps to maintain strong ...

House Call: Having fun in the sun for vitamin D's sake - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
STLtoday.com
But if you are someone who avoids the outdoors, has dark skin, or eats a restrictive diet, then you might be at risk of developing a vitamin D deficiency. What does vitamin D do for me? It is widely known that vitamin D helps to maintain strong ...

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More than 80% of healthy Indians are vitamin D deficient: Diabetes Foundation ...
Times of India
Vitamin D deficiency is fast becoming a global and national health concern. It is estimated that around 80% of the Indian population has Vitamin D levels less than normal. However, the bigger concern is that the population at large is not even aware of ...

MedPage Today
Low Vitamin D in Obese Linked to Risks - MedPage Today
MedPage Today
Among the cardiometabolic factors linked with vitamin D deficiency in these patients were fasting insulin, at 15.8 uU/mL (r = ?0.17, P<0.02) and hemoglobin (Hb) A1c (5.6%, r = ?0.19, P<0.005), according to Marisa Censani, MD, of Columbia University ...

DFI reports over 80% healthy Indians being vitamin D deficient - PharmaBiz.com
pharmabiz.com
Nearly every tissue in the human body has receptors of vitamin D, be it brain, heart, skin, kidney, pancreas etc. Any deficiency of vitamin D in the human body is bound to affect normal functioning of all organs having vitamin D receptors. Vitamin D ...

More than 80% of healthy Indians are vitamin D deficient: Diabetes Foundation ...
Authint Mail
Vitamin D deficiency is fast becoming a global and national health concern. It is estimated that around 80% of the Indian population has Vitamin D levels less than normal. However, the bigger concern is that the population at large is not even aware of ...