ArticleDiabetes technology & therapeutics2014
Vitamin D insufficiency is associated with abdominal obesity in urban Asian Indians without diabetes in North India.
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- Vitamin D Deficiency Is Inversely Associated with Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- High prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among the South Asian adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2021Pooled it
- Insulin Resistance Is Inversely Associated with the Status of Vitamin D in Both Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Populations.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Vitamin D supplementation and body fat mass: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2018Pooled it
- Body Mass Index, Vitamin D, and Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2018Pooled it
- Vitamin D Supplementation in Overweight/obese Asian Indian Women with Prediabetes Reduces Glycemic Measures and Truncal Subcutaneous Fat: A 78 Weeks Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial (PREVENT-WIN Trial).Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Relationship between vitamin D and surrogate parameters (leukocyte telomerase length, telomerase activity), and genes (Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Association of Vitamin D Status With Metabolic Syndrome and Its Individual Risk Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study.Cureus · 2023Article
- Association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration with anthropometric measures in children and adolescents: the CASPIAN-V study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- Lower levels of vitamin D are associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality in the Indian population: An observational study.International immunopharmacology · 2020Observational
- Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Abdominal Fat Accumulation According to Vitamin D Status in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes (J Obes Metab Syndr 2018;27:53-60).Journal of obesity & metabolic syndrome · 2018Article
- Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Abdominal Fat Accumulation According to Vitamin D Status in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.Journal of obesity & metabolic syndrome · 2018Article
- Lower vitamin D levels are associated with higher blood glucose levels in Asian Indian women with pre-diabetes: a population-based cross-sectional study in North India.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2018Article
- Association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and adiposity measurements in the general Korean population.Nutrition research and practice · 2016Article
- Systematic Review on Vitamin D Level in Apparently Healthy Indian Population and Analysis of Its Associated Factors.Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolismReview
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Abstract
objectiveWe evaluated the associations of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH) D] levels with clinical, biochemical, and anthropometric profiles and total abdominal adipose tissue (TAAT), subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue (SCAT), and intraabdominal adipose tissue (IAAT) depots in Asian Indians without diabetes residing in north India. SUBJECTS AND
methodsIn this cross-sectional study (n=137; 74 males and 63 females; 18-60 years of age), anthropometric (body mass index, waist and hip circumferences, and skinfold thickness at four sites) and biochemical (fasting plasma glucose, lipid profile, and fasting insulin levels) assessments were done. Measurement of percentage body fat was done by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, and areas of TAAT, SCAT and IAAT were measured at the L2-L3 intervertebral level by single-slice magnetic resonance imaging. Levels of 25(OH) D were measured by radioimmunoassay. Correlation analysis was used to assess relationships among clinical, biochemical, and anthropometric profiles, areas of TAAT, SCAT, and IAAT, and 25(OH) D levels.
resultsThe mean concentration of 25(OH) D was 40.5 ± 8.6 ng/mL. Overall, 6.6% had vitamin D deficiency (<10 ng/mL), 87.6% had insufficiency (<30 ng/mL), and 5.8% had a sufficient level (>30 ng/mL). Levels of 25(OH) D did not correlate with demographic, biochemical, and anthropometric profiles or with abdominal fat depots (TAAT, SCAT, and IAAT). In the correlation regression model, 25(OH) D was associated with TAAT in obese subjects.
conclusionsIn obese urban Asian Indians without diabetes, higher values of total abdominal fat at the L2-L3 intervertebral level were associated with low 25(OH) D levels.
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