Heart and bone damage from low vitamin D tied to declines in sex...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sat, 11/14/2009 - 23:00

(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the first conclusive evidence in men that the long-term ill effects of vitamin D deficiency are amplified by lower levels of the key sex hormone estrogen, but not testosterone.

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