chronic pain associated with low vit D levels

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Hi all--I clipped this from an article someone forwarded me about

vitamin D. There are links below.

7. Researchers in England discovered that patients with chronic

pain have phenomenally low vitamin D levels.

a) True

False

True. The authors added to the evidence that severe vitamin D

deficiency is associated with chronic pain. They found that 88

percent of their patients with chronic pain had levels less than 10

ng/ml. If they treated their patients, they did not report it.

However, Swiss researchers recently treated chronic pain patients

with vitamin D and reported the pain " disappeared " within one to

three months in most of their patients. This is the second open study

that showed adequate doses of vitamin D dramatically improved chronic

pain.

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