Pages tagged with "Darker Skin"
- Ethnicity and low vitamin D levels during pregnancy
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT
- Diabetes is associated with low vitamin D in various races, but not blacks
- African-Americans with poor sleep have lower levels of vitamin D
- Bioavailable Vitamin D is the same blacks and whites, but measured vit D is not
- Migrants from Middle East are slightly more vitamin D deficient than those from Africa - meta-analysis
- Prostate Cancer incidence and death 2X more often among black men (vitamin D not mentioned)
- Monthly vitamin D (120,000 IU) got most overweight African Americans about 35 ng – RCT
- Diabetes (Type 1) 14X more likely in dark skin children with low levels of vitamin D
- Kidney Cancer differences with skin color probably due to vitamin D differences
- African immigrants: half are vitamin D deficient (based on Caucasian measures)
- The darker the child’s skin, the lower the vitamin D level (Spain)
- Sickle Cell children need more than 7,000 IU of vitamin D daily
- Cardiovascular death reduction in dark skin migrants by just 1,000 IU of vitamin D
- Off topic – Skin luminance and hue
- Suicide rate among Native American teens increasing (yet no mention of low vitamin D)
- Diabetic glycation control is inversely related to Vitamin D in India
- Obese diabetics with dark skins not benefit from 6,000 IU of vitamin D daily (no surprise) – RCT
- Inflammation Anemia in Blacks 8X more likely if less than 20 ng of vitamin D
- Pain following auto accident is worse if low vitamin D (for African Americans)