p>A majority of Parkinson’s disease patients in a new study had insufficient levels of vitamin D. The fraction of patients with vitamin D insufficiency, 55 percent, was significantly more than patients with Alzheimer’s disease (41 percent) or healthy elderly people (36 percent).
p>The finding adds to evidence that low vitamin D is associated with Parkinson’s.
p>In addition, the study found that the fraction of patients with the very lowest levels of vitamin D was also higher in the Parkinson’s group (23 percent) than the Alzheimer’s group (16 percent) or the healthy group (10 percent)./p>img src=”wild>/aggbug.aspx?PostID=71188″ width=”1″ height=”1″>br>a runat=”server” href=’/blogs/public_blog/Avoid-Parkinson-s-Disease-by-Getting-Enough-of-This-Vitamin-71188.aspx#comments’> img runat=”server” border=”0″ alt=wild> /img><

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