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Intake of vitamin D and risk of type 1 diabetes: a birth-cohort study.

Hyppönen, E; Läärä, E; Reunanen, A; Järvelin, M R; Virtanen, S M
Lancet; 2001 Nov 3;358(9292):1500-3. PMID: 11705562
Department of Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, WC1N 1EH, London, UK. e.hypponen@ich.ucl.ac.uk
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Dietary vitamin D supplementation is associated with reduced risk of type 1 diabetes in animals. Our aim was to ascertain whether or not vitamin D supplementation or deficiency in infancy could affect development of type 1 diabetes.