Vitamin D, Your Legs & PAD

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Here’s something new to add to the growing number of reasons to get adequate amounts of vitamin D: it may help prevent peripheral artery disease (PAD), a condition that causes leg pain and numbness and can interfere with walking.

They found that the higher the levels of the sunshine vitamin, the lower the prevalence of PAD—in fact, the disease was 64 percent more common among study participants with the lowest levels of vitamin D than among those whose vitamin D levels were highest.

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