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Article: Low Vitamin D Levels May Be Common in Otherwise Healthy Children
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- July 9, 2007
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To: FAMILY EDITORS
Contact: Joey McCool of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
+1-267-426-6070, mccool@email.chop.edu
PHILADELPHIA, July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Many otherwise
healthy children and adolescents have low vitamin D levels, which may
put them at risk for bone diseases such as rickets. African American
children, children above age nine and with low dietary vitamin D
intake were the most likely to have low levels of vitamin D in their
blood, according to researchers from The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia.
A study in the current issue of the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition measured blood levels of vitamin D in 382 healthy children
between six years and 21 ...