Medicine Alternative | Vitamin D Deficiency Linked To Arterial Stiffness In Black Teens
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“While we think of the sun as providing humans with most of our body’s requirement of vitamin D, 95 percent of the 44 black teenagers living in sunny Georgia who took part in this study were classified as vitamin D deficient,” said Yanbin Dong, MD, PhD, of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and lead author of the study. “Our study shows that vitamin D supplementation may improve cardiovascular health in black teens who don’t get enough vitamin D from their diet and sun exposure.”
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In this study, 44 black
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