Low vitamin D levels linked to increased depression risk

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The likelihood of having depression is significantly increased in people

with deficient level of vitamin D, compared with people with adequate levels

of the sunshine vitamin, says a new study.

Data from the third US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

revealed that people with vitamin D deficiency were at a 85 percent

increased risk of having current depressive episodes, compared with people

with sufficient levels, according to findings published in the *International

Archives of Medicine* .

*“It is not known, whether vitamin D deficiency leads to the depression or

depression leads to the vitamin D deficiency,”* write the researchers from

Georgia State University. *“Further studies are needed in deciphering the

precise role of vitamin D in psychosomatic disorders.*

*“Although the direction of the cause and effect relation between depression

and vitamin D deficiency is not known clearly at this time, in public health

perspective, the coexistence of vitamin D and depression in the US

population at large is a concern,”* they add.

*“It is important to identify persons who are at risk for vitamin D

deficiency and/or for depression and to intervene early because these two

conditions have enormous negative consequences on long term health.”*

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