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IJE Advance Access originally published online on May 3, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(3):667-668; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn061
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Commentary: The complexities of minimizing risks due to UV exposures

D Michal Freedman

National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA.

E-mail: freedmam@mail.nih.gov

Accepted 3 March 2008

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For many years, the public health message about solar ultraviolet radiation (UV) focused nearly exclusively on its toxicity. Sunlight was a risk to be avoided. Yet, as has been increasingly emphasized in the scientific literature and lay press, UV is an agent that poses both harms and benefits to health. Solar UV exposure presents established risks to the skin and eyes, as well as initiating the predominant source of vitamin D, with recognized contributions to bone health and other possible health benefits. Understanding both sides of the UV and human health ledger is crucial to developing public health policy that will minimize the net . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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