Vitamin D status in youth with type 1 and type 2 diabetes enrolled in the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium (PDC) is not worse than in youth without diabetes.

Journal: Pediatric diabetes
PMID: 26611890

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To describe vitamin D levels and prevalence of vitamin D sufficiency, insufficiency and deficiency in a large, ethnically/racially diverse population of youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in comparison to national data and examine the associations between clinical/demographic factors and vitamin D levels.

Authors

  • Jamie R Wood
    Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Crystal G Connor
    Jaeb Center for Health Research, Tampa, FL, USA.
  • Peiyao Cheng
    Jaeb Center for Health Research, Tampa, FL, USA.
  • Katrina J Ruedy
    Jaeb Center for Health Research, Tampa, FL, USA. kruedy@jaeb.org.
  • William V Tamborlane
    Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
  • Georgeanna Klingensmith
    Department of Pediatrics, Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
  • Desmond Schatz
    Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
  • Brigid Gregg
    Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Eda Cengiz
    Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
  • Steven Willi
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Fida Bacha
    Children's Nutrition Research Center and Division of Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
  • Roy W Beck
    Jaeb Center for Health Research, Tampa, FL, USA.

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