Link between vitamin D deficiency and dementia risk confirmed

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-08/uoe-lb073114.php

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 6-Aug-2014

Contact: Louise Vennells
University of Exeter
Link between vitamin D and dementia risk confirmed
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a substantially increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in older people, according to the most robust study of its kind ever conducted

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a substantially increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in older people, according to the most robust study of its kind ever conducted.

An international team, led by Dr David Llewellyn at the University of Exeter Medical School, found that study participants who were severely Vitamin D deficient were more than twice as likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

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