EU RESEARCHERS SAY SUNSCREEN NOT ONLY TO BLAME FOR VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY
July 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research projects have concluded sunscreens are not the only culprit for vitamin D deficiency. The EU-funded ENGAGE, GEFOS, TREAT-OA and GENOMEUTWIN projects assessed vitamin D levels of 34,000 people of European descent. Researchers found subjects with certain gene structures were 2.5 times more likely to have low vitamin D concentrations than control groups. A concluding paper concludes this "could assist identification of a subgroup of the white population who are most at risk of vitamin D insufficiency and who may ...
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