Vitamin D deficiency means higher death risk in diabetes patients

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A new study in Diabetes Care - a journal of American Diabetes Association suggests diabetes with severe vitamin D deficiency are at much higher risk of dying from all causes and cardiovascular disease compared with others.

The study led by Christel Joergensen, M.D. of Steno Diabetes Center in Gentofte, Denmark and colleagues showed diabetes patients with severe vitamin D deficiency defined as having less than 13.9 nmol/L were 95 percent more likely than those whose vitamin D levels were higher than 13.9 nmol/L ...

http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Nutrition/Vitamins/vitamin_d_deficiency_means_higher_death_risk_in_diabetes_1711100.html