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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
WASHINGTON -- Vitamin D deficiency was significantly associated with metabolic risk factors and predicted insulin resistance in morbidly obese adolescents, a researcher reported here.
Among the cardiometabolic factors linked with vitamin D deficiency in these patients were fasting insulin, at 15.8 uU/mL (r = −0.17, P<0.02) and hemoglobin (Hb) A1c (5.6%, r = −0.19, P<0.005), according to Marisa Censani, MD, of Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, and colleagues.
In addition, the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) also correlated with vitamin D deficiency (3.4, r = −0.18, P<0.008), as did the whole-body insulin sensitivity index (6.8, r = 0.21, P<0.003), Censani reported in a poster session at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Endocrine Society.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/PES/38902
Among the cardiometabolic factors linked with vitamin D deficiency in these patients were fasting insulin, at 15.8 uU/mL (r = −0.17, P<0.02) and hemoglobin (Hb) A1c (5.6%, r = −0.19, P<0.005), according to Marisa Censani, MD, of Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, and colleagues.
In addition, the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) also correlated with vitamin D deficiency (3.4, r = −0.18, P<0.008), as did the whole-body insulin sensitivity index (6.8, r = 0.21, P<0.003), Censani reported in a poster session at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Endocrine Society.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/PES/38902