Do extreme summers increase blood vitamin D (25-hydroxyvitamin D) levels?

Frank Bernhard Kraus, Daniel Medenwald and Beatrice Ludwig-Kraus

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 11, 1-9

Abstract: Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme weather events, such as extended heat waves and droughts in the northern hemisphere. Besides affecting ecosystems worldwide, these changes in climate patterns will also affect the environmental health of human populations. While the medical community is mostly concerned with the negative impact of climate change, there might also be some beneficial effects. In this study we used laboratory data from a large university clinic in Germany (n = 13 406), to test for any detectable impact of two extreme summers on Vitamin-D [25(OH)D] plasma concentrations over a six year period (2014–2019). For the two years with extreme summers (2018 and 2019) the 25(OH)D plasma concentrations were significantly higher than in the previous four years (p

Date: 2020
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