Vitamin D: No Cure-All for Older Women, Brown University Study

Postmenopausal women receive no additional mortality benefit from vitamin D after controlling for health risk factors such as abdominal obesity, a new study finds. The research, consistent with advice issued last fall by the Institute of Medicine, found no evidence linking vitamin D to the prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease, or other causes of death after controlling for health factors like abdominal obesity.

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