Vitamin D/Bone Mineral Density and Triglyceride Paradoxes Seen in African Americans: A Cross-Sectional Study and Review of the Literature.

What It Covers

Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc and Parathyroid Hormone (PTH 1-84) in this review publication.

Vitamin D is known to have a positive effect on bone health.

Another intriguing relationship seen in AA is the triglyceride (TG) paradox, an unusual phenomenon in which a normal TG status is observed even when patients house conditions known to be characterized by high TG levels, such as Type II diabetes.

What Was Measured

Another intriguing relationship seen in AA is the triglyceride (TG) paradox, an unusual phenomenon in which a normal TG status is observed even when patients house conditions known to be characterized by high TG levels, such as Type II diabetes.

In this study, the researchers compared levels of blood markers, including HbA1c, TG, and vitamin D, measured as serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)VD] µM/mL, [25(OH)VD]/TG, calcium, and BMD in AA (n = 56) and white (n = 26) subjects with Type II diabetes to see whether these relationships exist concurrently.

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Bone Density, Cross-Sectional Studies, Calcium, Black or African American, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Glycated Hemoglobin and Vitamin D.

The authors tagged it with the keywords 25(OH)VD (25-hydroxyvitamin D), AA (African Americans), APO (apolipoprotein), BMD (bone mineral density), CBS (cystathionine β-synthase) and CSE (cystathionine-γ-lyase).

What This Means in Plain Language

This is a review of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc and Parathyroid Hormone (PTH 1-84).

The publication is from 2024 (International journal of molecular sciences), a journal based in Switzerland.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page and the Parathyroid Hormone (PTH 1-84) compound page, all human trials.