Higher risk of leukemia linked to low sunlight, vitamin D

Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 13:54 in Health & Medicine

Persons residing at higher latitudes, with lower sunlight/ultraviolet B (UVB) exposure and greater prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, are at least two times at greater risk of developing leukemia than equatorial populations, new research has found.

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