Study explores link between sunlight, multiple sclerosis

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 09:14 in Health & Medicine

For more than 30 years, scientists have known that multiple sclerosis (MS) is much more common in higher latitudes than in the tropics. Because sunlight is more abundant near the equator, many researchers have wondered if the high levels of vitamin D engendered by sunlight could explain this unusual pattern of prevalence...

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