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NHS Evidence - Neurological conditions - Behind the headlines - Vitamin D and Parkinson's

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Low vitamin D levels may increase a person's risk of developing Parkinson's disease, BBC News has reported. Its website said that people with the lowest levels of vitamin D had a three-fold higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease. The news is based on research that followed over 3,000 Finnish people aged 50 to 79 years over a period of 29 years. Scientists took a measurement of the participants' blood vitamin D levels and looked at how the subsequent risk of developing Parkinson's disease

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