Vitamin Deficiency

NutraIngredients-usa.com
Do vitamin D levels influence genes for immune health?
NutraIngredients-usa.com
“Three pathways related to innate immunity were more highly expressed in the vitamin D-deficient group: TLR signaling (gene set 64 and 65), a major pathway governing the inflammatory response to infection, and IL-1R pathway (gene set 55), which ...

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Vitamin deficiency poses risk to child development
VietNamNet Bridge
FacebookTwitter. addthis_button_compact. Send EmailPrinter. Vitamin deficiency poses risk to child development. VietNamNet Bridge – The National Institute of Nutrition has found that more than 50 percent of Vietnamese children fail to get enough ...

MedPage Today
UVB Exposure May Boost Low Vitamin D
MedPage Today
MIAMI BEACH -- Narrowband UVB therapy may be a better treatment for vitamin D deficiency than supplementation, Swedish researchers reported here. In a small, single-center study, patients deficient in vitamin D3 who were given 6 weeks of full-body UVB ...

Tuoitrenews
Vietnamese children at risk of vitamin deficiency: survey
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
The institute's recent surveys showed that the rate of vitamin- deficient Vietnamese children is higher than those in other three countries in the region, namely Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Surveys on nutrition in Southeast Asia conducted by the ...
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Vietnamese children at risk of vitamin deficiency: survey
Nzweek
HANOI, March 5 — Over 50 percent of Vietnamese children fail to get enough vitamins A, B1, C and D, or iron in their daily meals, the National Institute of Nutrition said on Tuesday. The institute's recent surveys showed that the rate of vitamin ...
Over 50% of Vietnamese children deficient in vitaminsTuoitrenews

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Study finds risky vitamin deficiencies in refugees
The Conversation
Refugees arriving in Australia often suffer from dangerous levels of Vitamin B12 deficiency, which can be fatal if left untreated, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, concluded that refugees should be routinely checked ...

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Knee osteoarthritis, cartilage lesions linked to vitamin K deficiency, study finds
Healio
Vitamin K deficiency was positively associated with developing knee osteoarthritis, according to this study of 1,180 patients from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. “In the first such longitudinal study, subclinical vitamin K deficiency was ...

Vitamin deficiency screening needed for refugees
EurekAlert (press release)
New research from the University of Adelaide has discovered a high prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency among refugees, prompting calls for refugees to be routinely screened for the problem soon after they arrive. Vitamin B12 deficiency is a sign of ...

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TopNews New Zealand
Vitamin D deficiency linked to food allergies
Newcastle Herald
Children deficient in vitamin D at age one are more likely to have food allergies, Melbourne researchers have found, but only if their parents are born in Australia. In a study of 5000 children, researchers from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute ...
Lack of Vitamin D blamed for some food allergiesThe Age
Lack of Vitamin D Leads to Food Allergies in Infants: StudyTopNews New Zealand

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Vitamin deficiency screening needed for refugees
HealthCanal.com
New research from the University of Adelaide has discovered a high prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency among refugees, prompting calls for refugees to be routinely screened for the problem soon after they arrive in the country. Vitamin B12 deficiency ...
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TopNews New Zealand
Lack of Vitamin D blamed for some food allergies
The Age
Children deficient in vitamin D at age one are more likely to have food allergies, Melbourne researchers have found, but only if their parents are born in Australia. In a study of 5000 children, researchers from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute ...
Lack of Vitamin D Leads to Food Allergies in Infants: StudyTopNews New Zealand

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Subclinical Vitamin K Deficiency boosts Knee Osteoarthritis risk
Food Consumer
Devyani Misra, MD, MS from Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass and colleagues conducted the study and found men and women who had subclinical vitamin D deficiency were 56 percent more likely to develop knee osteoarthritis, ...

Indians deficient in Vitamin D
New York Daily News
New Delhi, March 3 — Despite ample sunlight, people in India are deficient in Vitamin D which is leading to problems like weaker bones among the population, the Rajya Sabha was informed. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has reported that ...

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Vitamin b12 deficiency not linked with birth weight
Food Consumer
Satuday March 2, 2013 (foodconsumer.org) -- A study published a study in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology suggests that vitamin B12 deficiency of a pregnancy woman may not affect the fetal growth or birth weight.

Counsel & Heal
Winter Pregnancies May Stunt Babies' Bone Growth
LiveScience.com
Babies born after a winter pregnancy are more vitamin D deficient and have less bone growth than babies born after summers, a new study finds. The study found a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among pregnant women in Ireland, which varied ...
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RedOrbit
Panel questions value of calcium, vitamin D pills
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
The body also makes vitamin D from sunshine. If an older person has a vitamin deficiency or bone-thinning osteoporosis, doctors often prescribe higher-than-normal doses. But for otherwise healthy postmenopausal women, modest supplements to their diet ...
Vitamin D, Calcium Supplements Unnecessary For Many Postmenopausal WomenRedOrbit
Vitamin D, calcium won't prevent broken bones: expertsPakistan Daily Times
Vitamin D, calcium pills may not prevent fracturesNurse.com
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Vitamin D deficiency increased rate of ear and gastrointestinal infections
Healio
“The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was 10%; an additional 47% of children were vitamin D-insufficient. [Vitamin D deficiency] was associated with increased rates of diarrhea with vomiting and earache/discharge with fever,” the researchers wrote.

The Associated Press
Vitamin D, calcium pills may not prevent fractures
Nurse.com
The recommendation applies to people who do not have a known vitamin D deficiency or osteoporosis, noted task force member Jessica Herzstein, MD, MPH. "Vitamin D plays a role in a wide range of general health functions, and there appears to be minimal ...
Vitamin D, calcium may not curb older women's risk for broken bonesNBCNews.com (blog)
Calcium, vitamin D get thumbs-down from task forceUSA TODAY
Vitamin D, calcium won't prevent broken bones: expertsPakistan Daily Times
Ottawa Citizen -NPR (blog)
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Suntanned mushroom 'answer' to UAE vitamin D deficiency
The National
A company in the United States has come up with an answer to ending the high levels of vitamin D deficiency in the UAE: eating suntanned mushrooms. A lack of the sunshine vitamin, as it is called, is linked to a string of health conditions ranging from ...

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RedOrbit
Task force: Evidence for Vitamin D, calcium supplements lacking
CNN (blog)
Experts tout its benefits – from strong bones to a strong immune system – and warn of the dangers of Vitamin D deficiency. The public relations push is working; between 2002 and 2011, sales of vitamin D supplements increased from $42 million to $605 ...
Calcium, vitamin D get thumbs-down from task forceUSA TODAY
Older women, don't take vitamin D for bones: PanelReuters
Panel questions value of calcium, vitamin D pillsJamestown Sun
Everyday Health -RedOrbit -Wall Street Journal
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