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Vitamin D protects against heart disease and cancer
Vitamin D deficiency is already known to be associated with osteoporosis, now two new studies suggest that it may also be associated with heart disease and poorer prognosis for some cancers. A US cohort study of 1739 people with no cardiovascular disease at baseline, showed that those with low blood concentrations of vitamin D had twice the risk of a first cardiovascular event, such as a heart att ...
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