An Australian study has shed further light on the correlation between vitamin D and MS. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, shows that people born after the vitamin D-scarce winter months are roughly 30% more likely to go on to develop MS later in life compared with those born after the summer months.
The work complements a Scottish study which showed that people born in April (after the winter months) were around 50% more likely to develop MS than people born in November (after the summer months). Vitamin D deficiency has been a widely studied risk factor for MS and this work adds to the evidence linking deficiency to MS.
