Pages tagged with "Darker Skin"
- 1 in 5 Canadians have inadequate Vitamin D (less than 16 ng), far more if dark skinned – Canada
- US maternal death rate increasing (low D not mentioned)
- Vitamin D and poor health of South Asians living in Britain
- US Vitamin D levels increased 2001-2018
- Immune systems of overweight black women improved by monthly 60,000 IU Vitamin D – RCT
- Prostate cancer patients in Jamaica were 5X more likely to die of PC if low vitamin D
- T1 Diabetes 6.5 X more likely in South African Blacks if poor Vitamin D Binding Protein
- Newly diagnosed Children with Cancer have low vitamin D, especially if black
- Vitamin D treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease: monthly better than daily – RCT
- Cancer continues to be more deadly for Blacks than Whites (hint – low Vitamin D)
- Darker Skin Health Disparities might be eliminated by Vitamin D (no surprise)
- Lower Magnesium, 6 percent more COVID
- Cancer of breast is highest in dark-skinned women (low Vitamin D: dark skin and obese)
- Less cognitive decline in older blacks getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily for years (VITAL, etc. post analysis) – RCT
- 2700 IU of vitamin D needed to get above 20 ng if dark-skinned and high latitude
- Cancers and Vitamin D Receptors, including change with race
- Sarcopenia with obesity is more likely if dark skin, diabetes, OR COPD (all associated with low vitamin D)
- “Black Patients Matter”: US Blacks 2X more likely to die of COVID-19 than whites
- Skin scars (Keloids) more likely if low vitamin D, poor Vitamin D receptor, or dark skin
- Virus and Dark Skin - many studies
