Study of the relationship between vitamin D deficiency, sunlight incidence and skeletal/extra skeletaldiseases
Acta sci., Health sci
; 42: e50599, 2020.
Article
in English
| LILACS
| ID: biblio-1370899
Responsible library:
BR513.1
ABSTRACT
It is estimated that more than 1 billion people worldwide have vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency. Vitamin D participates in bone mineralization, and is therefore important in osteoporosis, osteomalacia and rickets prevention. However, vitamin D deficiency could also be associated with several other pathologies. The present study aimed to investigate the relationships between vitamin D deficiency and vitamin D deficiency-related disorders in patients. In addition, this study aims to verify if countries with low solar incidence have higher extraskeletal disease death rates when compared to countries with high solar incidence. The vitamin D concentrations were obtained from the Heart Hospital database (Natal/Brazil). The relationship between solar incidenceand death rate for vitamin D deficiency-related disorders was verified. Death rate data were extracted from the 'World Life Expectancy' repository and data about solar incidence were obtained from NASA's Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy project. Thesedata were statistically processed with IBM SPSS v23.0 software and R programming language. Our results showed that patients with vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency showed significantly more bone diseases, thyroid diseases, hypercholesterolemy, hypertriglyceridemia, cancers, diabetes, hepatobiliary diseases, and urinary system diseases. Moreover, countries with high solar incidence have low cancer and multiple sclerosis death rates. This work suggests the participation of vitamin D and sunlight incidence inseveral diseases.
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Health context:
SDG3 - Target 3.4 Reduce premature mortality due to noncommunicable diseases
Health problem:
Endocrine System Diseases
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Malnutrition and Nutritional Deficiencies
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Multiple Sclerosis
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Thyroid Cancer
Database:
LILACS
Main subject:
Sunlight
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Vitamin D Deficiency
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Bone Diseases
Type of study:
Incidence study
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Risk factors
Aspects:
Patient-preference
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Acta sci., Health sci
Journal subject:
Medicina
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Sa£de P£blica
Year:
2020
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte/BR