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Article: Ample sun exposure does not guarantee adequate vitamin D.(Clinical Rounds)
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- Family Practice News
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- January 1, 2006
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NASHVILLE, TENN. -- Physicians may need to rethink their advice to patients to get some casual sun to ensure vitamin D sufficiency, according to new data presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
In a study of young adults in Hawaii, abundant sun exposure did not guarantee adequate serum levels of vitamin D, said Dr. Neil C. Binkley of the osteoporosis clinical center and research program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
"This suggests that some individuals--for an unclear reason or reasons--do not achieve a high circulating [D.sub.3] concentration despite abundant sun exposure," he said. "It seems ...