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Plain old niacin--a B vitamin--may be better at unclogging arteries than an ingredient in Merck's multibillion-dollar cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin, according to a recent study. It's the third trial in two years to question the pills' effectiveness. Patients are growing skittish: sales of both drugs fell to $4.56 billion in 2008, down 12% from the year before...
Since obesity is known to be linked with lower levels of Vitamin D, the researchers decided to investigate the link directly...
...study suggests that several factors influencing obesity could be responsible for the increased risk of the autoimmune disease, including low levels of Vitamin D and the inflammatory chemicals secreted by fatty tissue...
Kassandra Munger, a research associate at HSPH and the lead author of the paper, had previously conducted a study linking low levels of Vitamin D to increased MS risk...
...Although hard evidence showing that low levels of vitamin D lead to diseases or that high levels prevent them is lacking, this is an increasingly burgeoning area of research,” said Mansbach...