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Study links sickest kids to low vitamin D levels
Most Canadian children need supplements: report
By Tom Spears, Postmedia News September 13, 2012
A new Canadian study of children hospitalized with severe infections shows three-quarters of them had low levels of vitamin D.
Our bodies make this vitamin when our skin is exposed to spring or summer sunshine. It also comes in cheap pills, in baby formula and drops for breastfed infants.
Canadians tend to have low levels of vitamin D because we live too far north to manufacture it for much of the year. Fall and winter sunshine is too weak.
But the 300 young patients at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and five other hospitals had low levels even by Canadian standards.
And Dr. Dayre McNally noticed another tendency among them: the sickest children and teenagers in the hospitals were usually those with the lowest vitamin D levels...
Study links sickest kids to low vitamin D levels
Most Canadian children need supplements: report
By Tom Spears, Postmedia News September 13, 2012
A new Canadian study of children hospitalized with severe infections shows three-quarters of them had low levels of vitamin D.
Our bodies make this vitamin when our skin is exposed to spring or summer sunshine. It also comes in cheap pills, in baby formula and drops for breastfed infants.
Canadians tend to have low levels of vitamin D because we live too far north to manufacture it for much of the year. Fall and winter sunshine is too weak.
But the 300 young patients at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and five other hospitals had low levels even by Canadian standards.
And Dr. Dayre McNally noticed another tendency among them: the sickest children and teenagers in the hospitals were usually those with the lowest vitamin D levels...