Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS – A study of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) found that those who spent time in the sun every day during the summer as teens developed the disease later than those reporting not spending time in the sun every day. The study, which was published in the October 7, 2015, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, also found that people who were overweight at age 20 developed the disease earlier than those who were average weight or underweight.
\”The factors that lead to developing MS are complex and we are still working to understand them all, but several studies have shown that vitamin D and sun exposure may have a protective effect on developing the disease,\” said study author Julie Hejgaard Laursen, MD, PhD, of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark. \”This study suggests that sun exposure during the teenage years may even affect the age at onset of the disease.\”
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