Study: Vitamin D Could Save Lives


	Study: Vitamin D Could Save Lives

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other causes bolsters mounting evidence about the "sunshine" vitamin's role in 
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<P>Patients with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D were about two times more 
likely to die from any cause during the next eight years than those with the 
highest levels, the study found. The link with heart-related deaths was 
particularly strong in those with low vitamin D levels.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1817322,00.html">Low vitamin D levels could reflect age, lack of physical activity and other 
lifestyle factors that also affect health, said American Heart Association 
spokeswoman Alice Lichtenstein, director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition 
Laboratory at Tufts University. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B7E2EC24-1DA7-49DD-87DB-4AC0D4C05AAF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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