The role of vitamin D, obesity and physical exercise in regulation of glycemia in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients.

What Was Tested

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

The aims of this study were to determine the role of vitamin D, obesity and physical exercise in the regulation of glycemia in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients in a highly consanguineous population.

Who Took Part

The study group was 2 patients.

The age groups tagged for this paper are adults and middle-aged adults, both men and women.

The study was conducted from November 2012 to June 2014 among subjects above 30 years of age.

Questionnaire included socio-demographic variables, body mass index (BMI), consanguinity, lifestyle habits, family history of diabetes, blood pressure and development of diabetes complications such as retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy were collected at regular intervals throughout the follow-up.

How the Study Was Run

The survey was carried out at the Hamad General Hospital and Primary Health Care (PHC) centers in the State of Qatar.

Of the 2224 registered with diagnosed diabetes and free diseases attending Hamad General Hospital and PHC centers agreed and gave their consent to study.

Univariate and multivariate statistical analysis were performed.

What Was Measured

The subject headings attached to it are Biomarkers, Blood Glucose, Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Complications, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Exercise and Gene-Environment Interaction.

Author keywords: Epidemiology, Lipid profile, Physical exercise and Vitamin D.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is an observational study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 2 patients.

With fewer than 40 people, it is a small study, so it is better read as an early signal for further research than as a settled answer.

Its findings take up roughly 7 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2017 (Diabetes & metabolic syndrome), a journal based in Netherlands.

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