Relationship Between Vitamin D Deficiency And Increased Inflammation In Healthy Women

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: April 9, 2009  

EXCERPT:  "Researchers have found that Vitamin D deficiency may negatively impact immune function and cardiovascular health and increase cancer risk. Now, a University of Missouri nutritional sciences researcher has found that vitamin D deficiency is associated with inflammation, a negative response of the immune system, in healthy women."  more

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Peterson CA, Heffernan ME. Serum tumor necrosis factor-alpha concentrations are negatively correlated with serum 25(OH)D concentrations in healthy women. J Inflamm (Lond). 2008 Jul 24;5:10.
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