Pages tagged with "Skin - Darker + Diabetes"

• Darker-skinned people have more health problems (in the UK in this case) - Grimes & Campbell video with summary
• Diabetes (T2) 2X to 6X higher prevalence in some dark-skinned or poor people
• Last in health, last in funding: Native American's double burden
• T1 Diabetes 6.5 X more likely in South African Blacks if poor Vitamin D Binding Protein
• Sarcopenia with obesity is more likely if dark skin, diabetes, OR COPD (all associated with low vitamin D)
• Diabetes is associated with low vitamin D in various races, but not blacks
• Diabetes (Type 1) 14X more likely in dark skin children with low levels of vitamin D
• Type I diabetes in dark skin children associated with low vitamin D if far from equator
• African-Americans at high risk of obesity and diabetes - 2011
• Hypothesis: Vitamin D will decrease CVD and diabetes in African Americans
• Studies linked low vitamin D and dark skin to Obesity, Diabetes, and heart
• Not yet certain that vitamin D reduces cardiovascular and diabetes in blacks
• Diabetes Statistics including more diabetes with darker skin – 2007