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Vitamin D deficiency

Study finds Parkinson’s patients are more commonly lacking in the vitamin than Alzheimer’s patients or healthy people

By Nathan Seppa

- More than 2 years ago

A vitamin D shortage is more likely to show up in people with Parkinson’s disease than in healthy people or those with Alzheimer’s disease, scientists report in the October Archives of Neurology . The study is the most recent contribution to a torrent of findings linking vitamin D deficiency with health risks.