Nutrition
Scientists at Uppsala University, Research Center report research in nutrition
Published in Cancer Weekly, October 19th, 2010
Research findings, 'Plasma vitamin D and mortality in older men: a community-based prospective cohort study,' are discussed in a new report. "Vitamin D status is known to be important for bone health but may also affect the development of several chronic diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular diseases, which are 2 major causes of death. We aimed to examine how vitamin D status relates to overall and cause-specific mortality," researchers in Uppsala, Sweden report.
"The Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men, a community-based cohort of elderly men (mean age at baseline: 71 y; n=1194), was used to investigate the association between plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D...
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