Lack of vitamin D may lead to shortened lives
A study out of Oregon State Universityfound a link between low levels of vitamin D and earlier death among older adults, news that can’t be comforting in a state that’s low on sunshine.
The Portland Tribune reports that the study by OSU nutritional epidemiologist Ellen Smit, published last week in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, examined data from 4,300 adults older than 60. It found that the most frail seniors — the ones who tended to die earliest — had the lowest levels of vitamin D in their blood
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