Importance of Vitamin D in Young Women
October 1, 2009 by Peggy Rowland
Filed under Women's Health
If you have vitamin D deficiency in the years before menopause, you may suffer three times the increased risk of developing high blood pressure later on.
A new study, reported on at the American Heart Association, found that vitamin D deficiency among premenopausal women led to systolic hypertension 15 years later.
Vitamin D is also important for bone health. It can enter the body through the skin by means of exposure to ultraviolet B rays in sunlight. Dietary vitamin D is ingested.
Vitamin D is found in many fish like salmon, tuna and mackerel. Vitamin D is also found in the yolk of …read more




