Pages tagged with "Darker Skin"
- Blacks are still not getting enough vitamin D
- Many possible associations of increased asthma in black children
- 2000 IU raised black teens vitamin D level to 34 ng and they lost fat
- Blacks may not need as much Vitamin D (for their bones)
- Lack of vitamin D closely associated with black health disparities
- Blacks similar to elderly in vitamin D status
- Breast cancer more deadly for blacks than whites
- Do blacks have a 5 year life penalty due to low vitamin D
- Low vitamin D in blacks increases colorectal cancer deaths 40 percent – Cancer
- 80 year old blacks 3X more likely to be low on vitamin D than whites
- Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D
- Skin color and clothing but not sunscreens reduce vitamin D
- Low vitamin D before orthopedic surgery – dark skin 5X more likely
- 86 percent with TB did not have 30 ng of vitamin D and many were black
- Blacks and whites may need different levels of vitamin D etc
- 97 percent of pregnant Blacks had less than 32 ng of vitamin D - 2010
- Vitamin D blood levels vary with estimated amount of African Ancestry
- White children in Johannesburg do not need vitamin D supplements
- Hypothesis of Diet disease and pigment variation in humans
- Elderly black women had low vitamin D which did not increase in the summer