Vitamin D deficiency is associated with different types of childhood obesity black and white

A recent study for publication in the Endocrine Society Journal of clinical endocrinology & metabolism (JCEM) accepted found that while black and white children with vitamin D deficiency both had fats in higher, black children were more likely, have in higher fat under their skin and white children were more common in higher fat between your internal organs.

Studies in adults and children have shown a link between obesity and vitamin D deficiency. Characterization of race differences in the relationship between obesity and vitamin-D data, in particular in the adipose tissue distribution are however limited. This study examined the differences in the relationship between vitamin D status, BMI, fat, fat distribution and lipid levels in healthy overweight and not obese 8-18 year-old black and white children.

"Vitamin D deficiency is rife in American youth, and there are some proposal in adults, that low vitamin D plays a role in the rising rates of type 2 diabetes can be." "It is possible same for youth with type can be true 2 diabetes", said Silva Arslanian, MD, the University of Pittsburgh and main author of the study. "Our study found that vitamin D in the higher and lower levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), also known as good cholesterol, fat was associated with in both black and white children."

In this study, researchers measured vitamin D levels in 237 children and found the majority of the participants were vitamin D deficient. Plasma vitamin D levels were vice versa with BMI and fat levels and associated positively with HDL cholesterol in all subjects. Visceral fat (FAT between internal organs) D deficiency White was higher in vitamin and subcutaneous adipose tissue (FAT under the skin) equivalents is in vitamin D of deficient blacks compared with their respective vitamin D deficiency.

"In addition to therapeutic interventions, the high levels of vitamin D deficiency in youth, benefits of vitamin D optimization on fat, lipid profile correct levels and risk of type 2 diabetes must be explored," Arslanian said.

Other researchers are working on the study are: Kumaravel Rajakumar, Javier de las Heras and SoJung Lee of the University of Pittsburgh, Penn; and Tai Chen and Michael Holick from Boston University in Massachusetts.

In the article "Vitamin D status, obesity and lipids in the black American and Caucasian children," appears in the may of 2011, of JCEM issue.

Source:
Endocrine Society

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