Serum vitamin D and the metabolic syndrome among osteoporotic postmenopausal female patients of a family practice clinic in Jordan.

What Was Tested

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

This study aims to investigate the association between vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency and the metabolic syndrome in a sample of osteoporotic postmenopausal women attending a family practice clinic in Amman-Jordan.

Why It Was Studied

Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency and the metabolic syndrome are two common health issues worldwide.

The association between these two health problems is subject to debate.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 326 subjects taking part.

PubMed indexes the participants as middle-aged adults and older adults, women only.

The study included all postmenopausal osteoporotic women attending the clinic between June 2011 and May 2012, yielding a total of 326 subjects.

How the Study Was Run

This was an observational cross sectional study.

It was carried out in the family practice clinic in Jordan University Hospital.

The association between metabolic syndrome and serum vitamin D levels was investigated.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Biomarkers, Blood Glucose, Body Mass Index, Cholesterol, HDL, Cholesterol, LDL, Cross-Sectional Studies and Family Practice.

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.

Results are reported in around 7 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2015 (Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University), a journal based in Poland.

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