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Article: Extra vitamin D intake favored over sun exposure.(Clinical Rounds)
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- OB GYN News
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- April 1, 2006
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The burning issue of how best to make sure that patients get enough vitamin D comes down to this conclusion: Recommending intentional exposure to the sun's rays is inappropriate, Dr. Henry W. Lim said.
Instead, for patients at risk of vitamin D deficiency recommend a vitamin D-fortified diet and daily supplements of 800 IU of vitamin D (ideally vitamin [D.sub.3]) plus calcium, he said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Dr. Lim, chairman of the dermatology residency program at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, organized the academy's 2005 consensus conference titled "Sunlight, Tanning Booths, and Vitamin D." At the ...