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Research led by the University of Otago has discovered seasonal vitamin D deficiency in industrial-era England, suggesting factors beyond indoor work and pollution contributed to historical rickets, and highlighting the importance of understanding past health issues to inform present-day vitamin D deficiency management.
She says it has been known for many years that there was an increase in rickets, a childhood bone disease caused by vitamin D deficiency, in 18“It has been assumed that this was due to more people, including children, working long hours indoors, living in crowded housing and in smog-filled environments, all of which reduce the amount of sunlight that reaches a person’s skin, which is the main way humans make vitamin D.
“This is exciting because it highlights that latitude and seasonal lack of sunlight was a major factor in the amount of vitamin D these people could make in their skin – it’s more complicated than the factors associated with the industrial revolution like working indoors more,” Dr Sohler-Snoddy explains.Vitamin D deficiency has been an ongoing problem in society and Dr Sohler-Snoddy believes it is important to study what happened in the past in order to inform modern approaches to the ailment.
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