Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels as an ageing marker. Strong associations with age and all-cause mortality independent from telomere length, epigenetic age acceleration and 8-isoprostane levels
The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, gly253, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/gly253
Ben Schöttker, PhD Leonie Hagen Yan Zhang, PhD Xīn Gào, MSc Bernd Holleczek, PhD Xu Gao, PhD Hermann Brenner, MD
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"The curves were estimated with a Cox proportional hazards regression model adjusted for chronological age, sex, BMI, education, smoking behaviour, physical activity, history of cancer and history of CVD"
Mortality starts with:
People die sooner if they have low vitamin D
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- More vitamin D means fewer deaths – many studies
- Much more likely to live longer if higher vitamin D – 27,000 seniors Feb 2017
- 2,000 IU of Vitamin D daily to German Seniors would save 30,000 lives a year – March 2021
- Dr. Grant on vitamin D and mortality in VitaminDWiki
- Top 10 causes of death - low vitamin D is associated with every cause - Nov 2018
- Taking vitamin D extends life - 56 trials with 100,000 people - Dr. Greger video July 2016
- Much more likely to live longer if higher vitamin D – 27,000 seniors Feb 2017
- Low Vitamin D is associated with dying sooner (70 studies) – meta-analysis Jan 2019
- 4.8 X more likely to die within 28 days of ICU if low Vitamin D - Jan 2024
- Chance of dying in hospital cut in half by just 10 ng higher level of Vitamin D – April 2016
- Senior women having low vitamin D were 2X more likely to die - Sept 2023
- Risk of death after bone fracture was 6.6 X higher if less than 10 ng of vitamin D – June 2017
Items in both categories Genetics and Mortality are listed here:
- Vitamin D appears to keep telomeres long (longer life) – Jan 2021
- Live longer if have more than 40 ng of Vitamin D (gene analysis of 10,500 people) – Jan 2019
- Telomeres in boys were 2.5% longer if 9 ng higher vitamin D – July 2018
- 5.8 X more likely to die in 15 year followup if low vitamin D and poor methylation – July 2018
- Increased mortality associated with low vitamin D genes – Nov 2014
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Background: A strong association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin-D levels (25(OH)D) with all-cause mortality has been shown previously and 25(OH)D could be a useful ageing marker.
Methods
The analysis was performed in a population-based, cohort study from Germany with 9,940 participants, aged 50-74 years at baseline. A general linear model was used to assess associations of 25(OH)D levels with chronological age and the ageing markers leukocyte telomere length, epigenetic age acceleration, and 8-isoprostane levels. A multivariate Cox regression model was applied to explore the independent and combined associations of these biomarkers with all-cause mortality (2,204 deaths occurred during a median follow-up of 14.3 years).
Results
On average, study participants lost 2.9 nmol/L 25(OH)D each 10 years of age. Increasing 25(OH)D levels were significantly associated with decreasing levels of 8-isoprostane levels but neither with leukocyte telomere length nor epigenetic age acceleration. The association of 25(OH)D quartiles with mortality was almost unchanged after adjusting for all ageing markers (1.6-fold increased mortality in bottom quartile compared to top quartile). All ageing markers were independent mortality predictors and subjects with unfavorable values for 4, 3, 2 and 1 ageing marker(s) had 4.3-, 2.9-, 2.2, and 1.4-fold increased mortality, respectively.
Conclusions
The 25(OH)D level can be regarded as an ageing marker because it is linearly associated with age and an independent mortality predictor. Mechanisms linking vitamin D to healthy ageing are unique and can neither be fully explained by ageing of the epigenome, loss of telomeres or anti-oxidative effects of vitamin D metabolites.
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