10 Groups Are More Prone To Vitamin D Deficiency - 2017

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These 10 Groups Of People Are More Prone To Vitamin D Deficiency

Prevention Magazine Sept 2017
Lots of details in the article

1. Adults over 55 (less D generated by the sun)
2. Office workers
3. People with darker skin
4. Inflammatory bowel disease patients
5. Vegans and vegetarians
6. People with a high body fat percentage
7. People taking certain medications
   • " Corticosteroid medications such as prednisone.... weight-loss drugs like orlistat ..., and the cholesterol-lowering drug cholestyramine ..."
8. People who have constant joint and muscles aches
9. People suffering from Depression
10. People who suffer from chronic Headache
    • Headache 2X more likely if low vitamin D https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39697

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VitaminDWiki – Deficiency of Vitamin D category contains

453 items   Some Highlights:

• Overview Deficiency of vitamin D
• Many reasons why vitamin D deficiency has become epidemic
  •   23 of the 40 reasons are recent
• Many doctors continue to believe 2,000 IU of vitamin D is max (Hungary in this case)– Dec 2021
• 73 percent of US infants still do not even get 400 IU of Vitamin D - June 2020
• Vitamin D levels are dropping rapidly – what you need to do
• 4 Reasons why Vitamin D levels are crashing
  • Update Reasons for Low Vitamin D and what to do with a concise table
• Air Pollution reduces Vitamin D
• Vitamin D levels in 56 countries (many have less than 20 ng) – 2021
• Trends in vitamin D status around the world – Nov 2021
• Vitamin deficiency in US military – Vitamin D is the most prevalent and is growing rapidly – June 2021
• Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies 77 studies as of Feb 2024
• Low Vitamin D is worse for your health than smoking
• Many categories of people are at High Risk of low vitamin D - 64 studies
• 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D
• Diseases arising from depletion are cured by repletion - Hippocrates 400 BC

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VitaminDWiki – High Risk category contains

64 items in High Risk Category

Those at high-risk of being Vitamin D deficient will require about 1.5X more vitamin D to restore their levels
Those who are at risk due to being obese need about 2X more vitamin D to restore their levels

see also
  Overview Dark Skin
  Overview Seniors
  Overview Obesity
  Overview Pregnancy
  Overview Deficiency
   Shut-in category which has 39 items
   Middle East category which has 151 items

22 VitaminDWiki pages had CLOTH in the title as of July 2022
14 VitaminDWiki pages with SHIFTWORK etc in title as of July 2022

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Vitamin D deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world – July 2022
• Vitamin D Deficiency - 14 signs - March 2023
• Shift workers 2X more likely to get COVID-19 (low Vitamin D) - Dec 2020
• Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies

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