[acb-diabetics] Vit. D insufficiency may cause diaabetes

[Paul&Nancy Matulis]

I do appreciate all the jnformation you pass along to us,but I get sick of reading if we had eaten this or done this we wouldn't have this disease. Coffee? Peanutbutter? Drink tea? Eat butter ,don't eat butter. See what I mean. I sometimes wonder if they even have a clue as to what or how this disease is triggered. Do you ever feel like this? Does it all come down to how we feel ? Nancy  

--- On Mon, 6/28/10, Patricia LaFrance-Wolf <plawolf at earthlink.net> wrote:


From: Patricia LaFrance-Wolf <plawolf at earthlink.net>
Subject: [acb-diabetics] Vit. D insufficiency may cause diaabetes
To: "blind diabetics of the Blind" <blind-diabetics at yahoogroups.com>, "Acb-Diabetics at Acb. Org" <acb-diabetics at acb.org>, "Doc Mahaber Dr." <trinispice at dslextreme.com>, "Joy Steigel" <jstigile at sbcglobal.net>, "Julie Cantrell" <JCantrell at juniorblind.org>
Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 12:23 PM








 
 
Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome in Studies
Sun Jun 20, 11:48 pm ET
 
SATURDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) -- A pair of new studies has 
uncovered evidence that low levels of vitamin D could lead to poor 
blood sugar control among diabetics and increase the risk of 
developing metabolic syndrome among seniors.
 
Both findings are slated to be presented Saturday at the Endocrine 
Society's annual meeting in San Diego.
 
In one study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of 
Medicine in Baltimore reviewed the medical charts of 124 type 2 
diabetes patients who sought specialty care at an endocrine 
outpatient facility between 2003 and 2008.
 
More than 90 percent of the patients, who ranged in age from 36 to 
89, had either vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency, the authors 
found, despite the fact that they all had had routine primary care 
visits before their specialty visit.
 
Just about 6 percent of the patients were taking a vitamin D 
supplement at the time of their visit, the research team noted, and 
those who had lower vitamin D levels were also more likely to have 
higher average blood sugar levels.
 
"This finding supports an active role of vitamin D in the development 
of type 2 diabetes," study co-author Dr. Esther Krug, an assistant 
professor of medicine, said in a news release from the Endocrine 
Society.
 
"Since primary care providers diagnose and treat most patients with 
type 2 diabetes, screening and vitamin D supplementation as part of 
routine primary care may improve health outcomes of this highly 
prevalent condition," Krug added.
 
A second study involving nearly 1,300 white Dutch men and women over 
the age of 65 found almost half were vitamin D-deficient, while 37 
percent had metabolic syndrome.
 
Metabolic syndrome is a grouping of health risk factors, including 
high blood pressure, abdominal obesity, abnormal cholesterol levels 
and high blood sugar.
 
"Because the metabolic syndrome increases the risk of diabetes and 
cardiovascular disease, an adequate vitamin D level in the body might 
be important in the prevention of these diseases," study co-author 
Dr. Marelise Eekhoff, of VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, 
said in the same news release.
 
Regardless of gender, those with insufficient amounts of vitamin D in 
their blood were more likely to have the syndrome than those with 
sufficient amounts of vitamin D, Eekhoff and her colleagues found.
 
"It is important," added Eekhoff, "to investigate the exact role of 
vitamin D in diabetes to find new and maybe easy ways to prevent it 
and cardiovascular disease."
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John
 
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