{"id":8888,"date":"2012-04-23T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2012-04-23T00:34:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T04:34:31","slug":"lack-of-sun-causes-rickets-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/lack-of-sun-causes-rickets-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Sun Causes Rickets: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunlight deprivation among Sudanese refugee children re-located to less-sunny parts of southern Australia has led to skyrocketing incidence of rickets \u2014 further evidence that sunlight deprivation is the main reason rickets is returning in the population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a seasonal variation and the further south you go in Australia the less vitamin D you get from the sun, especially during winter,&#8221; Endocrinologist Dr. Craig Munns told the Australian press about a study published this week in the Medical Journal of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The incidence of the condition for patients of Sudanese background is estimated to be 350 times greater than the national population, the study found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/health\/8452284\/bone-disease-high-in-refugee-kids-study\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>To read the story click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunlight deprivation among Sudanese refugee children re-located to less-sunny parts of southern Australia has led to skyrocketing incidence of rickets \u2014 further evidence that sunlight deprivation is the main reason rickets is returning in the population. &#8220;There was a seasonal variation and the further south you go in Australia the less vitamin D you get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lack of Sun Causes Rickets: Study - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sunlight deprivation among Sudanese refugee children re-located to less-sunny parts of southern Australia has led to skyrocketing incidence of rickets \u2014 further evidence that sunlight deprivation is the main reason rickets is returning in the population.  &quot;There was a seasonal variation and the further south you go in Australia the less vitamin D you get from the sun, especially during winter,&quot; Endocrinologist Dr. Craig Munns told the Australian press about a study published this week in the Medical Journal of Australia.  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