An article in the Journal of Internal Medicine, “Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death: a competing risk analysis of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden cohort,” by P. G. Lindqvist, E. Epstein, K. Nielsen, M. Landin-Olsson, C. Ingvar, H. Olsson
https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.12496, deals with an issue that should be of interest to rural women who have to be outside a lot. The dangers of skin cancer are well known, but now there is a problem of people not getting enough sun, and hence stimulating the body’s production of vitamin D3, leading to the increase of diseases, and hence mortality. This relationship has been documented by Swedish research.