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Article: Inadequate vitamin D levels may be common in healthy kids
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- The Hindustan Times
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- July 9, 2007
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Washington, July 9 -- Many kids and adolescents who are otherwise healthy have inadequate levels of vitamin D that is essential when it comes to preventing bone diseases such as rickets.
The findings are based on a study conducted by researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, US, who analysed 382 healthy children between six years and 21 years of age.
The researchers assessed dietary and supplemental vitamin D intake, as well as body mass, and found that more than half of the children had low blood levels of vitamin D.
Of the subjects, 55 percent of the children had inadequate vitamin D blood ...