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Vitamin D deficiency high among people in South; exposure to sunlight is must DECCAN CHRONICLE.
Updated Feb 5, 2021, 12:25 am IST
Lack of vitamin D increases risk of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension etc and makes people frail
Production of vitamin D requires exposure of maximum or full body to sunlight. Representational image
Hyderabad: Vitamin D deficiency is high among those in the age-group of 18–30, notes a study published in the International Journal of Research in Orthopaedics. Some 77 per cent of the 4,624 individuals studied showed the deficiency.
In the south, the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was as high as 81.2 per cent.