Half of US high school students will have dark skins by 2025

American Higher Education Hits a Dangerous Milestone The Atlantic - May 2018

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D

• Dark skin pregnancies and Vitamin D - many studies

• Do blacks have a 5 year life penalty due to low vitamin D

• Striking ethnic health disparity – blacks dying due to lack of vitamin D – Nov 2011

• Preterm birth more likely if dark skinned and low vitamin D (not white-skinned) – April 2017

• Dark skin pregnancies 2.6 times more likely to have low vitamin D – March 2017

• Racial differences in health problems (premature births) disappeared when vitamin D levels were the same – April 2018

• 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015

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Items in both categories Skin - Dark and Youth are listed here:

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