Long-term vitamin D insufficiency can cause secondary hyperparathyroidism and osteomalacia
(
1
). In addition, there is increasing evidence that vitamin D may protect against common
cancers, such as cancer of the colon (
2
,
3
,
4
), prostate (
5
), and breast (
6
). Young adults aged 17 to 35 years drink inadequate amounts of milk (
7
) and are concerned about exposure to the sun because of the fear of developing skin
cancer (
8
,
9
), which increases the risk of vitamin D insufficiency (
10
). We sought to examine the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in a group of free-living
healthy young adults, consisting of mostly health care professionals, in Boston, Massachusetts.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
January 29,
2002
Received in revised form:
January 18,
2002
Received:
July 12,
2001
Footnotes
This work was supported by NIH MO1RR00053.
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© 2002 Excerpta Medica Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
