How do you manage patients with low vitamin D levels in your psychiatry practice?
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Psychiatry · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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Low vitamin D levels are especially common in winter and early spring because we make endogenous vit D from 7-dehydrocholesterol in the epidermis only when UV light falls directly on the skin. If we have applied sunscreen, little or no vit D will be made. Since we venture outside in the late fall, w...
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