Vitamin D may exacerbate autoimmune disease
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 18:42
in Health & Medicine
Deficiency in vitamin D has been widely regarded as contributing to autoimmune disease, but a review appearing in Autoimmunity Reviews explains that low levels of vitamin D in patients with autoimmune disease may be a result rather than a cause of disease and that supplementing with vitamin D may actually exacerbate autoimmune disease.