10 Groups Are More Prone To Vitamin D Deficiency - 2017

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These 10 Groups Of People Are More Prone To Vitamin D Deficiency

Prevention Magazine Sept 2017
Lots of details in the article

1. Adults over 55 (less D generated by the sun)
2. Office workers
3. People with darker skin
4. Inflammatory bowel disease patients
5. Vegans and vegetarians
6. People with a high body fat percentage
7. People taking certain medications
   • " Corticosteroid medications such as prednisone.... weight-loss drugs like orlistat ..., and the cholesterol-lowering drug cholestyramine ..."
8. People who have constant joint and muscles aches
9. People suffering from Depression
10. People who suffer from chronic Headache
    • Headache 2X more likely if low vitamin D https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39697

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VitaminDWiki – Deficiency of Vitamin D category contains

453 items   Some Highlights:

• Overview Deficiency of vitamin D
• Many reasons why vitamin D deficiency has become epidemic
  •   23 of the 40 reasons are recent
• Many doctors continue to believe 2,000 IU of vitamin D is max (Hungary in this case)– Dec 2021
• 73 percent of US infants still do not even get 400 IU of Vitamin D - June 2020
• Vitamin D levels are dropping rapidly – what you need to do
• 4 Reasons why Vitamin D levels are crashing
  • Update Reasons for Low Vitamin D and what to do with a concise table
• Air Pollution reduces Vitamin D
• Vitamin D levels in 56 countries (many have less than 20 ng) – 2021
• Trends in vitamin D status around the world – Nov 2021
• Vitamin deficiency in US military – Vitamin D is the most prevalent and is growing rapidly – June 2021
• Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies 77 studies as of Feb 2024
• Low Vitamin D is worse for your health than smoking
• Many categories of people are at High Risk of low vitamin D - 65 studies
• 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D
• Diseases arising from depletion are cured by repletion - Hippocrates 400 BC

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VitaminDWiki – High Risk category contains

65 items in High Risk Category

Those at high-risk of being Vitamin D deficient will require about 1.5X more vitamin D to restore their levels
Those who are at risk due to being obese need about 2X more vitamin D to restore their levels

see also
  Overview Dark Skin
  Overview Seniors
  Overview Obesity
  Overview Pregnancy
  Overview Deficiency
   Shut-in category which has 39 items
   Middle East category which has 151 items

22 VitaminDWiki pages had CLOTH in the title as of July 2022
16+ VitaminDWiki pages with SHIFTWORK etc in the title

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Vitamin D deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world – July 2022
• Vitamin D Deficiency - 14 signs - March 2023
• Shift workers 2X more likely to get COVID-19 (low Vitamin D) - Dec 2020
• Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies

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