Vitamin D: benefits in the onset of Diabetes

Vitamin D can slow the progression of type 2 Diabetes in newly diagnosed patients and in individuals with pre-diabetes to slow down. A study in the European Journal of Endocrinology indicates. After six months improved insulin showed the effect in the muscle of study participants.

Although only 46 percent of the study participants had at the beginning of the study, a low Vitamin D level, improved the intake of Vitamin D the effect of insulin in the muscle of the participants in tissue within six months. Reporting Dr. Claudia Gagnon and their colleagues from the Université Laval in Quebec. They had investigated a high-dose Vitamin D intake affects blood sugar levels in patients in whom a type-2 Diabetes or its precursor, a pre-diabetes, had been diagnosed.

The reason for this effect is unclear, and in contrast to the results of studies with long-standing type 2 diabetes to date, there is no clear Vitamin were shown to be-D-effect. Gagnon suspected: "This could be due to the fact that improvements in the metabolic function in patients with long-term illness are more difficult to determine, or that a longer treatment time is required to realize the benefits."

Whether a Vitamin-D-dose effect in patients with prediabetes or newly diagnosed Diabetes in the long term, a positive effect, particularly in patients with low Vitamin D levels, still remains uncertain. Gagnon advises to follow the current recommendations for Vitamin D intake, although the results are promising, requires further studies to confirm the effect and to evaluate the safety of high-dose Vitamin-D supplementation.

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