Vitamin D status of inmates: the experience of penitentiaries prisons in the province of Salerno in Southern Italy.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this observational study publication.

To investigate vitamin D status and its determinants in a cohort of prisoners.

Why It Was Studied

Prisoners are at risk of developing vitamin D deficiency due to their lacking exposure to sunlight.

So far, there are no published studies evaluating blood levels of vitamin D in relation to the health status of inmates and the quality of the Italian prison system.

Who Took Part

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

How the Study Was Run

One hundred and seventy-two (172) pri-son inmates (males, n=159, age 47± 11.3 years; females, n=13, age 43.91±12.18 years) of three penitentiaries in the province of Salerno.

Vitamin D deficiency, insufficiency and sufficiency were respectively defined as a 25(OH)D level <20 ng/mL; from 20 to 30 ng/mL, >30 ng/mL.

What Was Measured

So far, there are no published studies evaluating blood levels of vitamin D in relation to the health status of inmates and the quality of the Italian prison system.

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Prisons, Vitamin D, Italy, Vitamin D Deficiency, Prisoners, Vitamins and Prevalence.

The authors tagged it with the keywords inmates blood deficiency and right to health.

What This Means in Plain Language

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

Its findings take up roughly 4 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2022 (La Clinica terapeutica), a journal based in Italy.

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