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Vitamin D Status among Older Adults Residing in the Littoral and Andes Mountains in Ecuador.
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- Role of Micronutrient Supplementation in Promoting Cognitive Healthy Aging in Latin America: Evidence-Based Consensus Statement.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Evaluating low and high vitamin D levels in Ecuadorian cities from 2018 to 2022: interrupted time series and a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Social determinants of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations deficiency in older Chilean people.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Decreased Vitamin D Levels and Altered Placental Vitamin D Gene Expression at High Altitude: Role of Genetic Ancestry.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Vitamin D and COVID-19-Revisited.Journal of internal medicine · 2022Review
- Association of Smoking with the Blood Concentration of 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D and Testosterone at High and Low Altitudes.International journal of general medicine · 2022Article
- 'Scientific Strabismus' or two related pandemics: coronavirus disease and vitamin D deficiency.The British journal of nutrition · 2020Article
- Does vitamin D status impact mortality from SARS-CoV-2 infection?Medicine in drug discovery · 2020Article
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- In search of Pan-American indigenous health and harmony.Globalization and health · 2019Review
- Vitamin D status and metabolism in an ovine pregnancy model: effect of long-term, high-altitude hypoxia.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2016Article
- Prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Cuenca, Ecuador.Multiple sclerosis journal - experimental, translational and clinicalArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo estimate the prevalence of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) deficiency and its determinants among older adults in Ecuador.
methods25(OH)D deficiency and insufficiency prevalence rates were examined among participants in the National Survey of Health, Wellbeing, and Aging. Logistic regression models were used to evaluate demographic characteristics associated with 25(OH)D deficiency.
resultsOf 2,374 participants with a mean age of 71.0 (8.3) years, 25(OH)D insufficiency and deficiency were present in 67.8% (95% CI, 65.3-70.2) and 21.6% (95% CI, 19.5-23.7) of older adults in Ecuador, respectively. Women (OR, 3.19; 95% CI, 3.15-3.22), self-reported race as Indigenous (OR, 2.75; 95% CI, 2.70-2.80), and residents in rural (OR, 4.49; 95% CI, 4.40-4.58) and urban (OR, 2.74; 95% CI, 2.69-2.80) areas of the Andes Mountains region were variables significantly associated with 25(OH)D deficiency among older adults.
conclusionsDespite abundant sunlight throughout the year in Ecuador, 25(OH)D deficiency was significantly prevalent among older women, Indigenous subjects, and subjects residing in the Andes Mountains region of the country. The present findings may assist public health authorities to implement policies of vitamin D supplementation among older adults at risk for this condition.
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