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T1 Diabetes 35 percent more likely if 10 degrees further from equator (less vitamin D) – June 2014

Spatial and temporal variation in type 1 diabetes incidence in Western Australia from 1991 to 2010: Increased risk at higher latitudes and over time.

Health Place. 2014 Jun 9;28C:194-204. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.05.004. [Epub ahead of print]
Ball SJ1, Haynes A2, Jacoby P3, Pereira G4, Miller LJ5, Bower C6, Davis EA7.
1 Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Electronic address: stephen.ball at telethonkids.org.au.
2 Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia; Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital, Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Electronic address: aveni.haynes at health.wa.gov.au.
3 Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Electronic address: peter.jacoby at telethonkids.org.au.
4 Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia; Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Yale University, One Church Street, 6th Floor, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. Electronic address: gavin.pereira at telethonkids.org.au.
5 Public Health & Clinical Services Division, Western Australian Department of Health, 189 Royal St, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia. Electronic address: laura.j.miller2 at health.wa.gov.au.
6 Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Electronic address: carol.bower at telethonkids.org.au.
7 Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia; Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Princess Margaret Hospital, Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Electronic address: elizabeth.davis at health.wa.gov.au.

This study analysed spatial and temporal variation in childhood incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) among Western Australia׳s 36 Health Districts from 1991 to 2010. There was a strong latitudinal gradient of 3.5% (95% CI, 0.2-7.2) increased risk of T1DM per degree south of the Equator, as averaged across the range 15-35° south. This pattern is consistent with the hypothesis of vitamin D deficiency at higher latitudes.

In addition there was a 2.4% (95% CI, 1.3-3.6) average increase in T1DM incidence per year.
These effects could not be explained by population density, socioeconomic status, remoteness or ethnicity.


Increase about 27 % (compounding 2.4% for a decade

See also VitaminDWiki

Pages listed in BOTH of the categories Diabetes and Infant/Child

  • Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains the following summary
  • Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
  • Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
  • Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
  • Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
  • Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
  • Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
        Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
  • All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 536 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

Number of articles in both categories of Diabetes and:
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  • Dark Skin 24;   Intervention 56;   Meta-analysis 38;   Obesity 35;  Pregnancy 44;   T1 (child) 39;  Omega-3 11;  Vitamin D Receptor 24;  Genetics 12;  Magnesium 27    Click here to see details

Some Diabetes studies

50 ng of Vitamin D fights Diabetes

T1 Diabetes

Pre-Diabetes

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Magnesium - many studies
Dr. Holick video on vitamin D - March 2013 video has the following
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