Vitamin D status and cardiometabolic risk factors in young adults in Hong Kong: associations and implications.
CONCLUSIONS: Vitamin D deficiency was highly prevalent and associated with poorer cardiometabolic risk profile in these young adults. Public health strategies for addressing vitamin D deficiency are needed urgently. These new data provide support for further study on vitamin D deficiency as a modifiable risk factor for cardiometabolic disease and the ameliorative effects of increased vitamin D intake on cardiometabolic disease risk profile of vitamin D-deficient young adults.
PMID: 29222903 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition - Category: Nutrition Authors: Wang EW, Pang MY, Siu PM, Lai CK, Woo J, Collins AR, Benzie IF Tags: Asia Pac J Clin Nutr Source Type: research
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