LOS ANGELES — Vitamin D is important for brain health, but this might be particularly true for women but doesn’t appear to have this beneficial effect in men, early research suggested.
The large study showed an association between greater plasma vitamin D levels in females and better memory and larger subcortical brain structures.
“We found that vitamin D for women was correlated with better cognitive outcomes, but we need to do more research to find out what role vitamin D actually plays at a mechanistic level,” study investigator Meghan Reddy, MD, Psychiatry Resident, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, told Medscape Medical News.
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