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Low vitamin D levels may be common in otherwise healthy children
07-09-2007 · EurekAlert!Many otherwise healthy children and adolescents have low vitamin D levels, which may put them at risk for bone diseases such as rickets. African American children, children above age nine and with low dietary vitamin D intake were the most likely to have low levels of vitamin D in their blood, according to researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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