[Relationship between vitamin D deficiency and metabolic syndrome in adult population of the Community of Madrid].

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc, published as an observational study.

This study was intended to find out if metabolic syndrome, according to the 2009 IDF/AHA/NHLBI, is associated to the presence of vitamin D deficiency.

Who Took Part

According to the abstract, 326 subjects were involved.

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were adults, middle-aged adults and older adults, both men and women.

A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 326 subjects aged 18 years or older, recruited from a health center in Alcalá de Henares.

Participants underwent an interview and a standardized clinical examination.

How the Study Was Run

In a second visit, blood tests were performed in 255 subjects to quantify serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25 OH-VitD) and different laboratory parameters associated to MS.

The association between vitamin D deficiency and metabolic syndrome (and each of its components) was examined.

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Anthropometry, Blood Glucose, Cross-Sectional Studies, Diet, Disease Susceptibility, Glycated Hemoglobin and Insulin Resistance.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Diabetes tipo 2, Metabolic syndrome, Síndrome metabólico, Type 2 diabetes, Vitamin D and Vitamina D.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is an observational study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 326 subjects.

With several hundred people or more, it is a fairly large study for this kind of research.

Its findings take up roughly 5 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2015 (Endocrinologia y nutricion : organo de la Sociedad Espanola de Endocrinologia y Nutricion), a journal based in Spain.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.