ReviewInternational journal of circumpolar health2013
Vitamin D status in Greenland--dermal and dietary donations.
Review in International journal of circumpolar health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Early life nutrition in Nunavut, Canada: a retrospective descriptive study of food security, vitamin D and rickets.International journal of circumpolar health · 2025Article
- Combined effects of low temperature, hyperosmolarity and seawater-conditioned pathogens on open fracture healing in a rat model simulating circumpolar environments.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Hip geometry in hip fracture patients in Greenland occurring over a 7.7-year period.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2021Article
- Food insecurity, vitamin D insufficiency and respiratory infections among Inuit children.International journal of circumpolar health · 2016Article
- An efficient case finding strategy to diagnose osteoporosis in a developing society with low treatment frequency.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2015Article
- Adequate vitamin D levels in a Swedish population living above latitude 63°N: The 2009 Northern Sweden MONICA study.International journal of circumpolar health · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundVitamin D status influences skeletal health, the risk of falls and fractures, and muscle health, and it has been associated with inflammatory, infectious, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders in addition to some cancers. Prevailing intracellular infections such as tuberculosis are speculated to relate to vitamin D status. The vitamin D sources are dietary and dermal, the latter depending on UVB radiation exposure from the sun. Life in the Arctic influences vitamin D status because of dietary peculiarities, the polar night, waning of the ozone layer and maybe ethnic differences between Inuit and non-Inuit. OBJECTIVE AND
designData on vitamin D status as estimated by plasma 25OHD in Inuit and non-Inuit in Greenland are reviewed.
resultsDecreasing intake of vitamin D-rich local food items associated with decreasing plasma 25OHD levels and insufficient vitamin D status is seen with low intake of traditional Inuit foods. Plasma 25OHD levels increase markedly during spring and summer in parallel with the high influx of sunlight while plasma 25OHD is not influenced by obesity in Greenland Inuit and no clear-cut association is seen between plasma 25OHD and the risk of tuberculosis.
conclusionThe frequency of vitamin D deficiency in populations in Greenland rises with the dietary transition and diseases related to low vitamin D status should be monitored.
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