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Does Vitamin D Deficiency Pose a Special Risk for Black People?
January 29, 2021 A vitamin D status test can help you and your healthcare team tell if you'd benefit from a supplement. Darius Simeon/Getty Images Vitamin D is important to the health of every system in the body, and yet many people do not get the recommended amount. “Many, many Americans — almost half — are vitamin D deficient,” says David O. Meltzer, MD, PhD, the chief of hospital medicine at University of Chicago Medicine. “But we know that in excess of three quarters of people with darker skin, including African Americans and Hispanics, are vitamin D deficient.” Now a new spot...
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