Associations between VDR Gene Polymorphisms and Osteoporosis Risk and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women: A systematic review and Meta-Analysis
Scientific Reports volume 8, Article number: 981 (2018)
Liang Zhang, Xin Yin, Jingcheng Wang, Daolinag Xu, Yongxiang Wang, Jiandong Yang, Yuping Tao, Shengfei Zhang, Xinmin Feng & Caifeng Yan
48 diseases were strongly associated with Vitamin D Receptor as of Dec 2018%%%Note: Many times a poor VDR results in 300% increase risk of a disease.
This 15% increased risk is so small it is not added to the list
Items in both categories Osteoporosis and Vitamin D Receptor are listed here:
- Vitamin D Receptors in muscles decrease with age in those with Osteoporosis - 2018
- Genes that increase the risk of Osteoporosis: Vitamin D Receptor is number one in Asians– April 2022
- Osteoporosis Risk varies with Vitamin D Receptor – three meta-analyses in 2020
- Prevent Osteoporosis and Have Strong Bones - book 2013
- Increased risk of Osteoporosis if poor Vitamin D Receptor (UK males this time) – Sept 2019
- Osteoporosis 3X higher risk of in white men having a poor Vitamin D receptor – Aug 2019
- Osteoporosis is associated with genes such as the Vitamin D Receptor – July 2019
- Osteoporosis 15 percent more likely if poor Vitamin D receptor – meta-analysis Dec 2018
- Disc Degeneration in women is 1.7X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis Jan 2017
- Osteoporosis is associated with more than vitamin D genes – Jan 2016
- 2.8X higher risk of osteoporosis if COPD and modified vitamin D receptor genes – Sept 2015
- Osteoporosis 2.8 X more likely if Vitamin D receptor (VDR) genes altered – Aug 2013
- Vitamin D Receptor genes bb and BB and Osteoporosis, esp. for blacks – meta-analysis Nov 2012
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Results on the relationships between vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphisms and postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMOP) susceptibility and bone mineral density (BMD) are conflicting. The aim of the study is to identify more eligible studies that calculated pooled OR and WMD with 95% CI to assess their associations. Overall, there were significant correlations between VDR ApaI, VDR FokI and PMOP susceptibility. Subgroup analysis showed that VDR ApaI polymorphism significantly decreased the osteoporosis risk in Caucasian postmenopausal women. In Asian populations, VDR BsmI and VDR FokI were associated with an increased risk of PMOP. As to the associations between VDR polymorphisms and BMD, Caucasian PMOP women carrying the ApaI aa genotype were at risk of high BMD in femoral neck, and low femoral neck BMD was observed in Caucasian PMOP women with FokI Ff genotype. PMOP women with the Cdx2 GA genotype had a lower lumbar spine BMD in overall and Caucasian populations compared with PMOP women with GG genotype. Different VDR gene polymorphisms have different impacts on PMOP risk and BMD.