Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 115-116, May 2009

Vitamin D and type 2 diabetes:

Is there a link?

Department of Diabetes and Metabolism, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK

Received 1 January 2009 published online 24 April 2009.

Abstract 

Prevention, or at least delay in onset of type 2 diabetes is possible by intensive lifestyle intervention. This is costly and labour intensive, and alternative methods of preventing diabetes have been sought. Vitamin D has important physiological effects aside from its effects on bone metabolism, including an important role in glucose homeostasis, insulin release and response. Observational data strongly support the role of vitamin D deficiency in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. The time is ripe for a well conducted randomised controlled trial of vitamin D in high risk individuals to test the hypothesis that vitamin D delays the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Keywords: Type 2 diabetes, Vitamin D deficiency

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PII: S1751-9918(09)00030-8

doi:10.1016/j.pcd.2009.03.004

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 115-116, May 2009

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