Vitamin D deficiency in early life leads to higher incidence and earlier onset of type 1 diabetes

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In a paper published on 6th August 2020 on www.mdpi.com.

They concluded that vitamin D deficiency in early life leads to higher incidence and earlier onset of type 1 diabetes.

Just out of interest, would anybody who uses this forum be able to source any stats for type 1 diagnosis based on counties in UK. I'm thinking along the lines of say Manchester (with renowned low levels of sunshine) that may show some link to lack of vitamin D and type 1 diabetes?
 

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That's interesting. I coach table tennis and one of my students of Indian origin has been diagnosed vit d deficient and is now on strong vit d supplements, she is 12yo. Apparently this is common in South East Asian folks, a segment of the population probe to Type 2.

I'll keep an eye out for the research you mention.
 
Amity Island said:
In a paper published on 6th August 2020 on www.mdpi.com.

They concluded that vitamin D deficiency in early life leads to higher incidence and earlier onset of type 1 diabetes.

Just out of interest, would anybody who uses this forum be able to source any stats for type 1 diagnosis based on counties in UK. I'm thinking along the lines of say Manchester (with renowned low levels of sunshine) that may show some link to lack of vitamin D and type 1 diabetes?
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Manchester has renowned low levels of sunshine? What about the highlands of Scotland, where daylight in winter can drop to just 5 hours a day? Is there an excess of T1 in Scotland? No.

MS is more frequent in Scotland - about 50% higher than in England. It's been postulated that the lack of Vitamin D may have a role in this. It's no more frequent in Manchester, by the way.
 
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Manchester has renowned low levels of sunshine? What about the highlands of Scotland, where daylight in winter can drop to just 5 hours a day? Is there an excess of T1 in Scotland? No.

MS is more frequent in Scotland - about 50% higher than in England. It's been postulated that the lack of Vitamin D may have a role in this. It's no more frequent in Manchester, by the way.
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Hi Mike,

Thanks Mike, I'm not thinking of daylight hours; more the sunshine/vitamin D hours. As you say, short "daylight" hours in the highlands of Scotland don't correlate with any increase in Type 1 Diabetes.

Would you be able to help with any sources or ideas for finding out Type 1 diabetes prevalence on a county level? Just to see if there is any evidence in what the study found.

Thanks
 
Thanks Eddy, very interesting in its own right that table. Never seen it before. As you gleaned from it, not much pointing to sunshine levels to prevelance of type 1 diabetes. However, lack of vitamin D may be only one of a number of causes, so it's going to be very difficult to determine.
I'll do a bit of digging, see if there any stats by counties.
 
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There doesn't seem to be any great difference in T1 incidence in Ireland, where if it isn't raining it's just about to, similarly Wales which is notorious for precipitation.
 
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