Pages tagged with "Darker Skin"
- First vitamin D book for blacks – 2011
- Twice as many fatal strokes among whites who were low on vitamin D
- Even young Caucasians do not get enough time in the sun
- 73 percent of Australians had too little vitamin D
- Africans in Europe might only need 19 ng of vitamin D – estimated from PTH
- VA found less testing for vitamin D resulted in increased health costs
- Reasons for low response to vitamin D
- 28 pct of dark skinned people in UK not heard of vitamin D and 54 pct not know symptoms
- 20 ng of vitamin D is enough for African American PTH
- Genetic differences explain some of vitamin D variation in African-Americans
- Immigrant vitamin D deficiency in Europe
- Striking ethnic health disparity – blacks dying due to lack of vitamin D
- Blacks living in urban area vs rural have less vitamin D if older than 50
- Blacks may need less vitamin D than whites – PTH
- Diseases of obesity strongly associated with vitamin D deficiency in ethnic minorities
- Second generation dark skinned immigrants live shorter lives
- 97 percent of Native American children have less than 30 ng of vitamin D
- Telomeres improved when obese blacks took 2000 IU of vitamin D daily
- Black seniors near equator: increased vitamin D decreases bone density
- Black veterans have worse health and low vitamin D, yet are not tested as much