AIMC Topic: Vitamin D

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Poor vitamin D status increases the risk of anemia in school children: National Food and Nutrition Surveillance.

Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) concentrations and the risk of anemia in a large cohort of children with consideration for the effects of sex, body mass index (BMI), serum intact parat...

Computational model for vitamin D deficiency using hair mineral analysis.

Computational biology and chemistry
Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in the Arabian Gulf region, especially among women. Recent studies show that the vitamin D deficiency is associated with a mineral status of a patient. Therefore, it is important to assess the mineral status of the p...

The potential impact of the hypovitaminosis D on metabolic complications in obese adolescents - Preliminary results.

Annals of agricultural and environmental medicine : AAEM
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: Vitamin D deficiency is common in obesity; however, its contribution in the development of metabolic complications remains uncertain. The aim of the study was to examine the relationships between vitamin D status and metab...

Vitamin D status, hypertension and body mass index in an urban black community in Mangaung, South Africa.

African journal of primary health care & family medicine
BACKGROUND: A strong relationship exists between hypertension and body weight. Research has linked both higher blood pressure and body weight with lower vitamin D status.

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and metabolic syndrome in a Japanese working population: The Furukawa Nutrition and Health Study.

Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
OBJECTIVE: Increasing evidence has suggested a protective role of vitamin D on metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, studies addressing this issue are limited in Asia and it remains unclear whether calcium could modify the association. We examined the ...

[Vitamin D Insufficiency in a Hospital Population: A Photograph from the Laboratory Perspective].

Acta medica portuguesa
INTRODUCTION: Although vitamin D deficiency is increasingly recognized around the world, there are few studies on the Portuguese reality. This study aims to analyse vitamin D levels in the assays performed in our hospital and their relationship with ...

Relationship between vitamin D and body fat distribution evaluated by DXA in postmenopausal women.

Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) serum concentrations and body fat distribution in a sample of postmenopausal women.

Low vitamin D level in pediatric patients with new onset type 1 diabetes is common, especially if in ketoacidosis.

Pediatric diabetes
BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) adversely affects bone health. US data on prevalence of VDD or vitamin D insufficiency (VDI) at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is lacking. Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) is speculated to increase the ...

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.

Pediatric diabetes
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 d...

Abnormal calcium, 25(OH)vitamin D, and parathyroid hormone after biliopancreatic diversion; correction through elongation of the common tract and reduction of the gastric pouch.

Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery
BACKGROUND: Biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) is a surgical technique burdened, in some instances, by clinical evidence of malabsorption and intractable diarrhoea.