Pages tagged with "Far from equator"

102 pages, most important first (overviews, then meta-analyses, then RCTs, then newest). Combine with another topic

• Graphs of diseases vs vitamin D levels - and D3 vs D2
• Russia and Vitamin D - many studies
• Iceland and Vitamin D - many studies
• Low Vitamin D if little UVB, supplementation helps (Antarctica) – meta-analysis
• Vitamin D deficiency diseases in dark skinned people living far from equator – Meta-analysis
• 20 ng is enough vitamin D for healthy Nordic Caucasians: 5th Nordic meta-analysis
• 1700 IU vitamin D (50000 monthly) helped antarctic explorers – RCT
• Why has the MS latitude gradient disappeared
• Many diseases increase with latitude (low UV, Vitamin D)
• Vitamin D varies with latitude - map of Chile
• Veiled Somali pregnant women in Sweden had low vitamin D and were weak
• The Sunshine Vitamin — restoring what modern life took away from Native Americans
• After years of vitamin D fortification and supplementation, Finland has 38 ng levels
• Newborns were 72X more likely to be Vitamin D deficient above the Arctic Circle
• Stillbirths dropped in 2 countries after increasing Vitamin D fortification (Finland, Sweden)
• Health can be greatly improved by weekly 50,000 IU of Vitamin D - video Lahore
• 95 percent of pregnant women in Finland took vitamin D – PHD Dissertation
• Arctic school children in Russia: only 1 in 11 has more than 30 ng of Vitamin D
• Breast Cancer vs latitude
• Very low levels of vitamin D in the Arctic (only 1% of teens have 30 ng level)
• Vitamin D Far from Equator
• Alaskan natives now eat far less fish and have far lower levels of vitamin D
• Suggest more vitamin D above the Arctic Circle
• Canadians have a hard time getting 1,000 IU of vitamin D from the sun
• Increased incidence of 7 cancers if live far from equator (if not take vitamin D)
• 1 in 5 Canadians have inadequate Vitamin D (less than 16 ng), far more if dark skinned – Canada
• Depression in Icelandic men 2.5 X more likely if vitamin D deficient
• Happiest country on earth has a high Vitamin D level (Finland, with little sun)
• Half a billion people live with little vitamin D from the sun
• Free 1,600 IU Vitamin D daily during pregnancy helps a lot (natives in Alaska)
• Canadian immigrants have lower vitamin D levels and more chronic diseases
• Vitamin D levels in Alaska are decreasing – does less fish mean less health
• Eskimos evolved to get and limit Vitamin D from food
• Vitamin D deficiency is a major global public health problem – Maps
• Low Vitamin D in Nordic countries – supplementation, fortification, only 20 ng
• Multiple Sclerosis varies with latitude while young
• Inuits eating seal and whale meat had 25 ng of vitamin D
• 2400 IU of vitamin D needed to get most Northern adults above 20 ng
• Swedish TV Warns 'Dark-Skinned' People, Muslims of Vitamin D Deficiency
• Middle Eastern women living in Sweden 23X higher risk to be anxious if low vitamin D
• Type I diabetes in dark skin children associated with low vitamin D if far from equator
• Vitamin D tests for Canadian BC adults can only be ordered by specialists
• Multiple Sclerosis incidence is still associated with latitude
• Multiple Sclerosis 2X more likely if low winter UV
• MS is related to latitude – conclusion from 321 studies
• Multiple Sclerosis incidence varies with latitude (noted in Brazil too)
• Heart Attacks in men 13 percent more likely if 10 degrees further North (Sweden)
• Many autoimmune diseases associated with latitude and vitamin D receptor
• Headaches vary with latitude and season and perhaps vitamin D as well
• Canadian pregnancies have enough vitamin D – if white, summer, supplement, eat meat, etc.
• Don’t be pregnant in Scotland
• US Cities with least amount of sunshine - top 15 all in Washington
• Genes evolve to adapt to excess or low vitamin D (Eskimo, Reindeer, etc.)
• Multiple Sclerosis rates are highest in Canada (far from equator)
• IBD in Finland – 3X increase in 15 years, more prevalent further from equator
• Vitamin D needed for 12 ng in winter in Finland – Whites 320 IU, Blacks 720 IU
• Half as many teeth problems if higher cord blood level of vitamin D
• Mortality varies with latitude in the UK
• Schizophrenia and vitamin D have latitude-related genes
• Vitamin D deficiency varies with latitude in Asia, as it does elsewhere
• Alaska recommends more vitamin D: Infancy 800 IU, Pregnancy 1400 IU (avoid rickets)
• Alaskan Resolutions to increase vitamin D
• Brain cancer in 175 countries related to low UVB and low vitamin D
• Esophageal Cancer 40 percent less likely in parts of UK with more sun (vitamin D)
• Vitamin D from phototherapy lamps, tanning beds, and the sun
• Dark skin does not generate as much vitamin D from the same amount of UV
• Russian children need 2,000-4,000 IU of Vitamin D to get most above 40 ng
• Canadian Paediatric Society – vitamin D recommendations unchanged since 2007
• Ethnicity and low vitamin D levels during pregnancy
• Increased TB if less than 30 ng or greater than 56 ng of vitamin D
• Swedish people in far North have OK vitamin D levels (perhaps from diet)
• Vitamin D levels remain acceptable for a few months into the winter
• Nordic countries upping vitamin D to 400 IU daily (not enough)
• Disadvantaged get less sun and have poor health in the North
• Hypothesis: Inuit do not need as much vitamin D
• Sun holidays are an important, but expensive, source of vitamin D in Sweden
• Dark skinned pregnant women far from equator were very vitamin D deficient
• 45 percent of Tasmanian adults vitamin D deficient in the winter
• Half of the US will be people of color – wonder how many will be vitamin D deficient
• People with no UV for 6 months in the winter need at least 2000 IU of vitamin D
• Use of tanning beds would reduce associated deaths by 10X
• Dark Skinned adults need more than 45 minutes of UK summer sun daily
• Race vs vitamin D level - Veith
• Schizophrenia high and increasing in Canada – lower vitamin D and more dark skin
• Melanoma less likely when far from equator
• Inuit and vitamin D
• Even eating whale blubber does not provide enough vitamin D
• Inuit preschoolers were very vitamin D deficient
• Vitamin D associated with tPA (heart) for 50 year olds in UK
• Sunlight robbery in the UK
• 744 IU vitamin D needed by Northern white teens to prevent Rickets
• UK elderly need vitamin D – 86 percent less than 30 ng
• Breastfed infants in Germany with 250 IU of vitamin D got to 56ng
• 75 percent of Canadians less than 30 ng vitamin D in winter
• How did people used to get vitamin D when far from equator in the Winter
• 40 percent of Canadian children preparing for surgery had less than 30 ng of vitamin D
• Half of Canadian elderly achieved 30 ng with just 560 IU
• UK workshop on diet, sunlight, and vitamin D status
• Latitude may not be too associated with vitamin D – Masterjohn
• Only 18 percent of Swedes got recommended amount of vitamin D
• MS onset 2 years earlier in northern latitudes
• Patient UK on vitamin D