Lack of vitamin D linked to higher dementia risk

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Lack of vitamin D linked to higher dementia risk

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/lack-vitamin-d-linked-higher-dementia-risk-204030324.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ljHgJZXkTcOW8IeWqUJ8fg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/01fd2b4cebb97d652fffda80d008c68e8241aa5d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="An employee at a San Francisco fish market weighs salmon filets on October 17, 2006" align="left" title="An employee at a San Francisco fish market weighs salmon filets on October 17, 2006" border="0" /></a>Older people who do not get enough vitamin D face a much higher risk of dementia or Alzheimer's disease, the largest study of its kind on the topic said Wednesday. People get vitamin D from sunlight and from oily fish like salmon, tuna or mackerel, as well as milk, eggs and cheese. Reporting in the journal Neurology, international researchers found that people who were severely deficient in vitamin D were more than twice as likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease as people who got enough. By that point, 171 participants had developed dementia and 102 had Alzheimer's disease.</p><br clear="all"/>

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