A similar pattern was found by scientists through the examination of 903 people.
The researchers found that the probability of occurrence of human diabetes associated with the amount of vitamin D in his body.
An international team of scientists from the University of San Diego (USA) and Seoul (South Korea) conducted a joint study: the experts came to the conclusion that the probability of developing diabetes mellitus type 2 (insulin) may be higher, the lower in the human body of vitamin D.
“The minimum amount of 25-hydroxyvitamin D for a healthy person should be 30 ng/ml. deficiency of 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration below 30 ng/ml, the risk of Contracting type 2 diabetes increases by almost 5 times compared with the concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D over 50 ng/ml” – elaborated on the authors of the project.
By the beginning of the experiment these people on the average age 74 years were healthy. They passed a medical examination and then was again checked by doctors after 10 years. During this time, 47 people developed diabetes, another 337 cases, physicians estimated how prediabetes a condition in which the blood sugar levels in humans increases, reaching the indicators of type 2 diabetes. Simultaneously, the scientists studied the level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in plasma. The calculations showed that at the concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D over 50 ng/ml the risk of developing diabetes was significantly reduced in 5 times. But with low levels of vitamin people, on the contrary, become susceptible to diabetes.
“To maintain concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in plasma of 30 ng/ml is enough to spend 10-15 minutes outdoors on a Sunny day,” recalled the experts.
Diabetes type 2 diabetes is not adequate utilization of glucose by body tissues, the result and its level in the blood increases. Also, as a consequence, there is a violation of fat metabolism and the development of systemic atherosclerosis. Diabetes type 2 diabetes has a genetic predisposition. With age the risk of developing diabetes type 2 increases. On average, this disease affects every tenth inhabitant of the planet over the age of 50.
