From the Vitamin D Council

Ground-breaking new research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism suggests that people with low vitamin d levels are more likely to have diabetes, regardless of how much they weigh.

Studies have consistently found that vitamin D deficiency is associated with obesity and diabetes. Though, most research that has evaluated the relationship between vitamin D status and body mass index has failed to consider if patients were diabetic or not.

Since the majority of obese patients have altered sugar metabolism, researchers from the current study questioned whether vitamin D deficiency is directly related to obesity, or rather, a consequence of altered sugar metabolism, such as diabetes.

In order to answer this question, the researchers looked at the vitamin D levels of individuals with a wide range or BMI values, taking into account whether the patients were pre-diabetic, diabetic, or neither.

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