Vitamin D

Research Summary: High dose vitamin D supplementation does not affect biochemical bone markers in multiple sclerosis - a randomised controlled trial There has been a lot of online coverage during the past two...

Research Summary: Vitamin D Status During Pregnancy and Risk on Multiple Sclerosis in Women in the Finnish Maternity Cohort The background Many studies have suggested that vitamin D deficiency is...

Research Summary: Safety and immunologic effects of high- and low-dose cholecalciferol in MS The background There is growing evidence to implicate a potential role for Vitamin D in the development and...

The fact that after puberty women get MS more than men indicates a potential role for female sex hormones in the development of the disease. The fact that this gender imbalance has increased over the past 50...

There has been a long-held belief that low-levels of Vitamin D may increase the risk of developing multiple sclerosis. This has been supported by the worldwide distribution of MS, where lower rates are...

Filmed during our MSBase Feature Week, this short video with Associate Professor Helmut Butzkueven introduces PrevANZ, a Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia led study investigating the role Vitamin D...

By Brett Drummond In part one of this series, we discussed that geographical studies indicated that MS is more prevalent the further you moved away from the equator and that this was thought to be due to...

By Brett Drummond For a long time, it has been known that both genetics and the environment play a role in determining how likely a person is to develop multiple sclerosis (MS). As technology advances, more...