Diabetes Four Times More Likely in Vitamin D Deficient White Americans

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Diabetes Four Times More Likely

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:26:21 -0800

Press Release

For Immediate Release

The Vitamin D Council

11/23/04

 

Diabetes Four Times More Likely in Vitamin D Deficient White Americans

 

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Professor Robert Scragg

University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

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Today, a group from New Zealand headed by Professor Robert Scragg,

discovered that diabetes is four times more likely in white Americans

with serum 25(OH)D levels lower than 18 ng/ml (43.9nmol/l) than in

Whites with 25(OH)D levels greater than 32 ng/ml (81 nmol/l). Seventy

five percent of the white Americans had levels less than 32 ng/ml.

Scragg's group found no such association in black Americans; probably

because most Blacks have been vitamin D deficient for so long their

pancreas has lost sensitivity to vitamin D. The risk for Hispanic

Americans was six fold .

http://care.diabetesjourna ls.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/12/2813

 

Dr. Scragg has published more than 140 articles over his 50 year

career as an epidemiologist.

 

John Jacob Cannell, MD

The Vitamin D Council

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