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Article: Is Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Alzheimers Disease and Vascular Dementia?: Hypothesis Explored in the Current Issue of the Journal of Alzheimers Disease.
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- Diabetes Week
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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There are several risk factors for the development of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Based on an increasing number of studies linking these risk factors with Vitamin D deficiency, an article in the May issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (May 2009) by William B. Grant, PhD of the Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center (SUNARC) suggests that further investigation of possible direct or indirect linkages between Vitamin D and these dementias is needed (see also Dementia).
Low serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] have been associated with increased risk for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, depression, dental caries, ...