Vitamin D deficiency is an etiological factor for MS – No

Annette Langer-Gould; Robyn M. Lucas

doi:10.1177/1352458518808469

Vitamin D deficiency is an etiological factor for MS – No

Annette Langer-Gould^*, Robyn M. Lucas

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Abstract

If vitamin D deficiency causes multiple sclerosis (MS), as smoking causes lung cancer, then we would expect this to be true across all racial/ethnic groups, and we would expect populations with high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency to have high incidence of MS. Neither is true; indeed, the evidence is quite the contrary.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	639-641
Number of pages	3
Journal	Multiple Sclerosis Journal
Volume	25
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1352458518808469
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2019

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