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What is the outcome of a deficiency of vitamin d?

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Dr. Thomas Namey answered

Specializes in Rheumatology

Several things!: Osteoporosis and in men, greater likelyhood of prostate cancer and colon cancer, in women, more breast and colon cancer, and in both sexes, heart disease and stroke. Other problems occur, but I have highlighted the best defined!

Answered 8/21/2013

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