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- Frailty can be avoided – vitamin D is one of the ways
- Million TB deaths annually, yet proven treatments of Vitamin D, sunshine, etc are not used
- People with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and low vitamin D have increased high risk of advanced liver fibrosis
- Cancer risks and Vitamin D Receptors – association is unclear – 2017
- Preterm birth rate reduced 60% by Vitamin D (40 ng)
- Central America – 32 ng average Vitamin D level
- Pancreatic cancer risk of death reduced 19 percent by Vitamin D – meta-analysis
- Aging leads to a decrease of vitamin D getting to cells
- Poor sleep associated with low vitamin D (again)
- Rheumatoid Arthritis nicely treated by Vitamin D (300,000 IU loading dose)
- Canadian grant funding lost for prescribing 50,000 IU of vitamin D
- Cervical lesions (precancerous, identified by pap smear) treated by bi-weekly 50,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT
- Death within 2 years of surviving an ischemic stroke 10X less likely if high vitamin D
- More fat in liver associated with lower vitamin D
- 1,000 IU of Vitamin D while pregnant helped a little bit (4,000 IU helps a lot) – RCT 2016
- Asthmatic children taking Corticosteroids had 2X more vitamin D intake, but lower levels
- Malay women 14 X more likely to be Vitamin D deficient than Chinese in Malay
- Multiple Sclerosis risk of relapse reduced by 13 percent for every 2.5 ng higher level of vitamin D (under age 37)
- Chronic Kidney Disease mortality is 60 percent less likely if good vitamin D – meta-analysis
- Vitamin D response time is 3-6 months, not much benefit in first 4 months – RCT
