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

[Christopher Gray]

Hi:

I know what you mean, but the evidence supporting many positive effects
of Vitamin D is growing day by day.

Chris

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Paul&Nancy
Matulis wrote:

> 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
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> --- On Mon, 6/28/10, Patricia LaFrance-Wolf <plawolf at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome in Studies
> Sun Jun 20, 11:48 pm ET
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> 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.
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> Both findings are slated to be presented Saturday at the Endocrine
> Society's annual meeting in San Diego.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "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.
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> "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.
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> 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.
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> Metabolic syndrome is a grouping of health risk factors, including
> high blood pressure, abdominal obesity, abnormal cholesterol levels
> and high blood sugar.
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> "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.
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> 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.
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> "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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