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Vitamin D and risk of cause specific death
Vitamin D has a greater impact on cancer mortality rates than on cancer incidence rates
BMJ 2014; 348 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g2862 (Published 29 April 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;348:g2862
- William B Grant, researcher1,
- Cedric F Garland, adjunct professor2
- 1Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center, San Francisco, CA 94164-1603, USA
- 2Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- wbgrant{at}infionline.net
Chowdhury and colleagues’ meta-analysis of cancer specific incidence and mortality rates with respect to bottom versus top third of baseline 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels found higher relative risks for those with cancer at time of enrolment than those without.1 The implication of this finding is that vitamin D has a much stronger impact on survival after developing cancer than on reducing the …
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