Vitamin D: Do You Have Enough?
Benefits of Vitamin D – the sunshine vitamin:
- Essential for bone health – reduces your risk of osteoporosis and fractures
- Boosts your immune system
- Reduces your risk of diabetes
- Reduces your risk of high blood pressure and heart disease
- Boosts weight loss
- May reduce cancer risk
Vitamin D deficiency can therefore affect your health on multiple fronts.
To understand the Vitamin D status of the general population, we conducted a study of all those who did a Vitamin D test as part of a health check-up at Suburban Diagnostics over the past 5 years.
From almost 1.35 lakh samples, we found that a majority were deficient in Vitamin D.
| Age Group | Percentage of people deficient in Vitamin D |
|---|---|
| 0-9 | 88% |
| 10-19 | 85% |
| 20-29 | 81% |
| 30-39 | 78% |
| 40-49 | 73% |
| 50-59 | 65% |
| 60+ | 60% |
Desirable level of Vitamin D is above 30 ng/ml.
As you can see, depending on age, 60-88% of people are deficient in Vitamin D.
Get your Vitamin D levels checked today!
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