{"id":34419,"date":"2018-06-17T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T11:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=34419"},"modified":"2018-06-17T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T11:54:49","slug":"vitamin-d-may-cut-breast-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/vitamin-d-may-cut-breast-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D may cut breast cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Higher-levels of vitamin D may lower the risk of developing breast cancer, a study has found.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of California San Diego in the US pooled data from two clinical trials with 3,325 combined participants and a prospective study involving 1,713 participants to examine the association between risk of female breast cancer and a broad range of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations, which was chosen as the marker because it is the main form of vitamin D in blood.<\/p>\n<p>All women were age 55 or older. The average age was 63. Data were collected between 2002 and 2017. Participants were free of cancer at enrolment and were followed for a mean period of four years. Vitamin D levels in blood were measured during study visits.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the combined studies, 77 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed for an age-adjusted incidence rate of 512 cases per 100,000 person-years.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers identified the minimum healthy level of 25 D in blood plasma to be 60 nanograms per millilitre (ng\/ml), substantially higher than the 20 ng\/ml recommended in 2010 by the National Academy of Medicine, a US health advisory group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found that participants with blood levels of 25D that were above 60 ng\/ml had one-fifth the risk of breast cancer compared to those with less than 20 ng\/ml,&#8221; said Cedric F Garland, a professor at the UC San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Risk of cancer appeared to decline with greater levels of serum vitamin D.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher-levels of vitamin D may lower the risk of developing breast cancer, a study has found. Researchers from the University of California San Diego in the US pooled data from two clinical trials with 3,325 combined participants and a prospective study involving 1,713 participants to examine the association between risk of female breast cancer and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34421,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34419\/revisions\/34421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}