Vitamin D-sufficient women were 62 percent less likely to be diagnosed with Crohn’s disesase over a 22-year period than women with vitamin D deficiencies, according to researchers from the Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
The study, led by Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, MD, is published in the March issue of Gastroenterology.
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