Estimated Serum Vitamin D Status, Vitamin D Intake, and Risk of Incident Alopecia Areata Among US Women

September 2016 in “ Archives of Dermatological Research ”

Jordan M. Thompson, Tricia Li, Min Kyung Park, Abrar A. Qureshi, Eunyoung Cho

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TLDR Vitamin D levels do not affect the risk of developing alopecia areata.

In a study of 55,929 women from the Nurses’ Health Study over 12 years, researchers found no significant association between vitamin D levels and the risk of developing alopecia areata (AA). Among 133 identified cases of AA, the age-adjusted hazard ratio for the highest versus lowest quartiles of serum vitamin D score was 0.94, and the multivariate hazard ratio was 1.08. These results did not support a preventive role for vitamin D in the risk of developing AA.

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