Vitamin D deficiency makes liver cancer worse

That is the conclusion just published in the specialized journal Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics by doctors in the research group at the University Hospital of Frankfurt (Germany).

Specifically, the research team followed 200 patients with liver cancer. The results showed that patients with severe vitamin D deficiency (very low blood vitamin D levels) had a mortality rate 2.2 times higher in one year of follow-up than those without vitamin D deficiency.

Sunbathing is one of the effective ways to supplement vitamin D. Photo from the internet

Liver cancer is one of the most common types of cancer. Factors that make us susceptible to the disease are chronic hepatitis B virus infection, hepatitis C virus infection, alcoholism, eating old rice, moldy rice.

Symptoms of the disease are loss of appetite, weight loss, jaundice, enlarged liver, pain in the liver area (upper right abdomen). Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin, found in milk, fish oil, animal liver, egg yolks; especially vitamin D is also synthesized by the body from a precursor available in the skin under the stimulation of sunlight.

According to AloBacsi.vn