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1. Vitamin D levels are associated with metabolic syndrome in adolescents and young adults: The BCAMS study

Author:
Fu, Junling; Han, Lanwen; Zhao, Yanglu; Li, Ge; Zhu, Yingna; Li, Yu; Li, Ming; Gao, Shan; Willi, Steven M.
Source:
Clinical nutrition 2019 v.38 no.5 pp. 2161-2167
ISSN:
0261-5614
Subject:
Chinese people; adolescents; at-risk population; body mass index; children; gender; glucose; glucose tolerance tests; insulin; low density lipoprotein cholesterol; metabolic syndrome; neck; noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; nutrition risk assessment; obesity; odds ratio; triacylglycerols; vitamin D; vitamin D deficiency; young adults; youth; China
Abstract:
... The relationship between vitamin D deficiency and metabolic syndrome (MS) remains controversial with relatively sparse data among youth. Therefore, we attempted to explicate the association of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels with MS in Chinese adolescents and young adults.A cohort of 559 subjects at elevated risk of MS were recruited at 14–28 years of age as a follow-up to the Beijing Child a ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.clnu.2018.08.039