Researchers Make Another Discovery About Vitamin D

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This quote pretty well sums it up:

In a small case-control study, women with fecal incontinence had significantly lower vitamin D levels than controls (29 ng/mL versus 35 ng/mL), according to Candace Parker-Autry, MD, of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and colleagues.

The odds of vitamin D deficiency were significantly higher in women with fecal incontinence than in controls -- almost three times higher, they reported in the International Urogynecology Journal.

Vitamin D Blog: A Role in Fecal Incontinence?

Is that interesting or what? Note that in the study, only a slight difference in average 25(OH)D levels made a huge difference in results. 29 ng/mL is not even deficient — it's only short of sufficiency by a single ng/mL. Maybe that arbitrary sufficiency level should be raised.

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I just had my Vit. D level checked....72.7!!! I was typically 20. It's good to see more and more research about the importance of Vit. D. :)