12.09.20
In a recent study published by the American Diabetes Association in the journal Diabetes Care, researchers established a link suggesting that adequate blood concentrations of vitamin D could significantly reduce both cardiovascular death risk and all-cause mortality in patients with type I and type II diabetes.
Sourcing the data from 6,320 adults who participated in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the researchers observed a clinically significant reduction in the group of participants who had serum vitamin D concentrations that were above deficient levels (<50nmol/L). In total, 46.6% of the study participants were deficient in vitamin D.
During the study, which had a variable follow-up period totaling 55,126 person-years across 2001-2014, a total of 2,056 deaths were recorded, including 605 CVD deaths and 309 cancer deaths. Higher serum vitamin D levels were linearly associated with lower all-cause and CVD mortality, with a 31% reduced risk for all-cause mortality and a 38% lower risk of CVD mortality per one increment used to measure vitamin D status.
Those patients who did have adequate vitamin D status also had lower levels of glucose, insulin, HOMA-IR, HbA1c, blood lipids, and C-reactive protein at baseline, all of which are positive signs in the management of diabetes.
The researchers suggest that maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D may help people with diabetes lower their risk of death, though the evidence preceding this clinical trial on the matter remains scarce.
Sourcing the data from 6,320 adults who participated in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the researchers observed a clinically significant reduction in the group of participants who had serum vitamin D concentrations that were above deficient levels (<50nmol/L). In total, 46.6% of the study participants were deficient in vitamin D.
During the study, which had a variable follow-up period totaling 55,126 person-years across 2001-2014, a total of 2,056 deaths were recorded, including 605 CVD deaths and 309 cancer deaths. Higher serum vitamin D levels were linearly associated with lower all-cause and CVD mortality, with a 31% reduced risk for all-cause mortality and a 38% lower risk of CVD mortality per one increment used to measure vitamin D status.
Those patients who did have adequate vitamin D status also had lower levels of glucose, insulin, HOMA-IR, HbA1c, blood lipids, and C-reactive protein at baseline, all of which are positive signs in the management of diabetes.
The researchers suggest that maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D may help people with diabetes lower their risk of death, though the evidence preceding this clinical trial on the matter remains scarce.
