Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D

FACT - - People with dark skins have more health problems and higher mortality rate than those with light skins

FACT - - People with dark skins have low levels of vitamin D

FACT - - People with light skins who have low vitamin D have health problems

OBSERVATION - - The health problems of whites with low level of vitamin D are similar to those with dark skins

CONCLUSION - - People with dark skins have more health problems due to low levels of vitamin D

African American Health Disparities are associated with low Vitamin D - Grant Feb 2021

Low Vitamin D increases health problems - independent of skin color

Dark Skin studies: Pregnancy ( studies),  Genetics ( studies),  Vitamin D Binding Protein ( studies),  Vitamin D Receptor ( studies),  Diabetes ( studies),    Cardiovascular ( studies),  Mortality ( studies), Intervention ( studies) Click here to see the studies

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Increased Death Rate with Dark Skin- - - - - - -

• Dark-skinned children 3.4 X more likely to die after surgery than white skinned children NYT July 20, 2020

  • reporting on a study in Pediatrics "Race, Postoperative Complications, and Death in Apparently Healthy Children" The word VITAMIN does not occur once in the study

• Do blacks have a 5 year life penalty due to low vitamin D from JAMA 2007

  • Heart Disease 1.3 years, HIV 0.6 years, Perinatal death 0.5 years, Stroke 0.4 years, Lung cancer 0.3 years,
  • Other cancer 0.3 years, Diabetes 0.3 years, Prostate cancer 0.3 years, Septicemia 0.2 years,
  • Hypertension 0.2 years, Nephritis 0.2 years, Homicide 1.0 years-Depression ?
  • Unintentional injuries 0.4 years (drugs, autos, falls )
• Lack of vitamin D closely associated with black health disparities – Nov 2010 which includes:
  • Cardiovascular disease, Congestive heart failure, Chronic kidney disease, Cognitive impairment
  • Glucose metabolism, Peripheral arterial disease, End-stage renal disease, Diabetes
  • Cancer, Breast cancer, Colorectal cancer, Influenza, common cold, Sepsis, All-cause mortality rate

• Black die younger than whites 2021

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Chart of Vitamin D levels vs race - April 2013 has the following

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The Black/White survival discrepancy peaks at age 78: chronic illness

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US vitamin D deficiency vs skin color details were reported by CDC March 2012

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Amount of vitamin D deficiency depends on amount of African-American blood (genes)

CLICK HERE for more information

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The health disparity for dark skinned people is almost the same as whites having a low level of vitamin D

	Black vs White	White - low D vs White - high D
breast cancer	1.34	1.26
colorectal cancer	1.43	1.44
cardiovascular disease	1.29	1.27
all-cause mortality	1.26	1.26

CLICK HERE for details, Dr. Grant

**See later: African American Health Disparities are associated with low Vitamin D - Grant Feb 2021

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Skin - Dark category listing has items along with related searches

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In VitaminDWiki

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Samples of - Skin - Dark in VitaminDWiki

• Preterm Birth 2.7X more likely if low vitamin D (dark skin in this case) - Nov 2023

• Vitamin D and poor health of South Asians living in Britain – Oct 2022

• Immune systems of overweight black women improved by monthly 60,000 IU Vitamin D – RCT Oct 2022

• Prostate cancer patients in Jamaica were 5X more likely to die of PC if low vitamin D - Sept 2022

• Cancer continues to be more deadly for Blacks than Whites (hint – low Vitamin D) – May 2022

• Darker Skin Health Disparities might be eliminated by Vitamin D (no surprise) - April 2022

• 2700 IU of vitamin D needed to get above 20 ng if dark-skinned and high latitude – Oct 2021

• Many healthy African Americans got above 33 ng with 4,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT March 2014

• Race vs vitamin D level - Veith May 2011 has the following chart

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Vitamin D Supplementation in Young White and African American Women, Jan 2014* PDF is attached at the bottom of this page * White Women * African American Women *

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See also on the Web

• Little variation in vitamin D levels with skin color in Brazil – July 2014 - a different conclusion

• Health Disparities Experienced by Black or African Americans by CDC - US

• Office on Minority Health US

  • includes Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, HIV/AIDS, Immunization, Infant Mortality, and Stroke

• Black Women's Health Imperative

• Healthy Black Men

• Black Doctor

• Women's Health for African-Americans US

• Black Health Zone

• LA Times June 2012 based on 4 year old data (2008)

  • A black baby boy will die 5.4 years earlier than white boy

  • A black baby girl will die 3.7 years earlier than white girl.

  • The life expectancy for black men 70.8 years, vs 76.2 years for white men

  • The life expectancy for black women 77.5 years, vs 80.3 years for white women.

• When should medicine talk about race? Part 2: Seven guidelines Scientific American Aug 2012 - no mention of vitamin D

  • Summarizes a JAMA publication of 2003

• African American Community Mental Health 2012? 1 page, has the following

  • Across a recent 15-year span, suicide rates increased 233 % among African Americans aged 10-14 compared to 120 % among similar Caucasian Americans

• The vitamin D RDA for African American adults: higher than that for white persons?

  • Am J Clin Nutr 2014 ajcn.082271; First published online January 22, 2014. Editorial by Cashman KD, no abstract available

  • Search VitaminDWiki for KD Cashman 84 items as of Jan 2014

• People with dark skins should not have to wear sunscreen all the time July 2014

  • She says that the Surgeon General and CDC recommend sunscreen ALL of the time for ALL Americans

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Dark skins (less Vitamin D) = more Alzheimer's

• Good description of Discrimination based on skin color WikiPedia

  • skin bleaching was a $28 billion/year market in 2008

• White skin - Neanderthal inheritance Dr. Grimes & New Scientist April 2014

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