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Archive for November, 2008

vitamin D supposedly doesn’t protect against breast cancer

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

A study of 36,000 women, half of whom took a gram of calcium and 400 IU of vitamin D for a period of 7 years was recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Instutute
The main findings do not support a causal relationship between calcium and vitamin D supplement use and reduced breast cancer incidence, despite [...]

Low vitamin D linked with high blood pressure (Reuters)

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Low vitamin D linked with high blood pressure (Reuters)
Reuters – Lower blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, a protein that provides an acquire measure of vitamin D in the blood, are independently associated with an increased risk of developing high blood pressure, according to findings published in Hypertension.
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