A few months ago, our six-year-old daughter, Bisi, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It’s a condition she will have to manage carefully…
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When we were in the hospital, Bisi received a box of diabetes information from the Lilly pharmaceutical company (the same company that produced…
Vitamin D deficiency can contribute to retinopathy in young people with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study published in Diabetes Care. If you haven't checked your vitamin D level recently, ask your doctor to check next time you go in for an HbA1c test.
A new study has found vitamin D deficiency to be associated with retinopathy in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
The study, published online ahead of print in Diabetes Care, set out to examine the hypothesis that vitamin D deficiency...
According to a study published in the October issue of Diabetes Care, patients with type 2 diabetes who have a vitamin D deficiency have an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease....
Low vitamin D levels have been linked to an increased risk of osteoporosis, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, depression and rheumatoid arthritis, among other diseases. And a study published in 2009 in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that 70% of Caucasians, 90% of Hispanics and 97% of African Americans in the US have insufficient blood levels of vitamin D.
Vitamin D's influence on type 1 diabetes is thought to be related to the vitamin's ability to suppress autoimmune responses...