Pages tagged with "Darker Skin"
- Depressed black pregnant women should take vitamin D
- Racial differences in health problems (premature births) disappeared when vitamin D levels were the same
- Blacks die more often than whites of many diseases (they have less vitamin D) – 2012
- Senior Blacks with low vitamin D were 2X more likely to experience cognitive decline 5 years later
- Rate of vitamin D supplementation by Blacks increases 16X after getting Multiple Sclerosis
- Sickle Cell clinical trial will inject 300,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT due 2020
- 10 reasons for poor response to Vitamin D (race, binding protein, etc.)
- Bone loss during black pregnancies – 4000 IU of vitamin D was not enough
- Crohn's disease in black children is worse in 6 ways
- Prostate Cancer risk in black men increased 2X having poor Vitamin D Binding Protein
- Hypertension not controlled by 26 ng of Vitamin D (50,000 IU bi-weekly A-A) – RCT
- Breast cancer in blacks – 5X increased risk of triple negative if low vitamin D
- TB risk in Blacks increased 20 percent having poor Vitamin D Receptors
- Genes for light skin – 29,000 and 900,000 years old
- ICU - lots of vitamin D in first week helped the dark skinned
- Hypertension is more likely in those with darker skins (low vitamin D) 2017
- STD rates are highest if dark skin, and US rates are increasing
- Diabetic blacks – 80 percent had low vitamin D (less than 20 ng) a decade before
- Black infants far less likely to be breast-fed (wonder – culture or low Vitamin D)
- Raised skin scars (keloid) have fewer Vitamin D Receptors