An estimate of the global reduction in mortality rates through doubling vitamin D levels.

This study estimated that global mortality rates, from a large number of conditions, could be reduced by 20% by doubling Vitamin D levels.
The diseases in which Vitamin D has been implicated include,  Cardiovascular disease , cancer, respiratory infections, respiratory diseases, tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus , Alzheimer's disease, falls, meningitis, Parkinson's disease, maternal sepsis, maternal hypertension (pre-eclampsia) and multiple sclerosis and many others.

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