20 Most-visited pages in Dark Skinned category in Vitamin D Life
The articles in Pregnancy AND Dark Skin are here:
- Vitamin D Status May Help Explain Maternal Race and Ethnic Factors in Primary Cesarean Section Delivery – April 2020
- Dark-skin plus low vitamin D in first trimester made preterm birth 2.9 X more likely – Dec 2019
- Low vitamin D in pregnancy linked to potentially harmful vaginal bacteria in black women - May 2019
- Pregnant while black increases chance of death – mothers 3X, infants 2X (low Vitamin D) – Feb 2019
- Depressed black pregnant women should take vitamin D – April 2018
- Bone loss during black pregnancies – 4000 IU of vitamin D was not enough – Dec 2017
- Preterm birth more likely if dark skinned and low vitamin D (not white-skinned) – April 2017
- Dark skin pregnancies 2.6 times more likely to have low vitamin D – March 2017
- Premature birth and infant mortality worse if dark skin (low vitamin D) - 2015
- Autism with intellectual disability 2.5 times more likely if low vitamin D during pregnancy – April 2016
- Ethnicity and low vitamin D levels during pregnancy – Jan 2016
- Metabolites of pregnant blacks vary with vitamin D level – Nov 2014
- Dark-skined mothers: preeclampsia 12X more likely if gestational hypertension – May 2014
- 78 percent of pregnant immigrants in Sweden had less than 10 ng low vitamin D – Nov 2013
- Depression in pregnant blacks strongly associated to vitamin D levels – Nov 2012
- Dr. Holick video on vitamin D - March 2013
- Dark skinned pregnant women far from equator were very vitamin D deficient – Sept 2012
- Pregnant blacks 50 pcnt more likely to be depressed if 3 ng less vitamin D – July 2012
- 80 percent of South Asian Women in UK had less than 10 ng of vitamin D in winter – April 2012
- Blacks have more pre-term births due to low nutrients such as vitamin D – Sept 2011
- Dark skin births are much riskier due to lack of vitamin D
- Vitamin D and fertility and birth problems with dark skin – Jan 2011
- Very low vitamin D for first pregnancies and those with dark skin – Jan 2011
- 97 percent of pregnant Blacks had less than 32 ng of vitamin D - 2010
- Pregnant women vitamin D insuficiency Black 97 Hispanic 81 White 67 percent – July 2010
The articles in Genes AND Dark Skin are here:
- Race changes the risk of various health problems, but many questions remain – Sept 2018
- Colon cancer more likely in blacks due to differences in Vitamin D genes (wonder if more Vitamin D would help) – May 2014
- Increased risk of multiple sclerosis risk in African Americans due to genes – June 2013
- Lupus in blacks associated with low vitamin D AND short telomeres – May 2013
- Genes in white blood cells of blacks associated with vitamin D deficiency – May 2013
- Vitamin D Receptor genes bb and BB and Osteoporosis, esp. for blacks – meta-analysis Nov 2012
- Genes may account for some of AA Breast Cancer – April 2012
- Genetic differences explain some of vitamin D variation in African-Americans Dec 2011
- Race vs vitamin D level - Veith May 2011
- Blacks may not need as much Vitamin D (for their bones)
- Hypothesis of Diet disease and pigment variation in humans – April 2010
- The more the African Ancestry, the lower the vitamin D level – July 2010
- Epigenetics and vitamin D – June 2010 clips from the web
The articles in Vitamin D Binding Protein and Darker Skin are here:
- Sweat types, folate, binding protein, lighter skin in females and Vitamin D – Jan 2020
- 10 reasons for poor response to Vitamin D (race, binding protein, etc.) – Nov 2017
- Prostate Cancer risk in black men increased 2X having poor Vitamin D Binding Protein – July 2017
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015
- Bioavailable Vitamin D is the same blacks and whites, but measured vit D is not – Oct 2014
- Blacks have lower vitamin D levels, but OK active vitamin D levels (VDBP) - Feb 2015
- Vitamin D-binding protein and vitamin D status of black Americans and white Americans – Nov 2013
The articles in Vitamin D Receptor and Darker Skin are here:
- TB risk in Blacks increased 20 percent having poor Vitamin D Receptors – Sept 2017
- Raised skin scars (keloid) have fewer Vitamin D Receptors – Aug 2017
- Prostate cancer in black men is 1.6 times more likely if a poor Vitamin D Receptor – Feb 2017
- Aggressive Prostate Cancer in blacks with low vitamin D – 7X more likely if added Calcium – Jan 2017
- 2X less prostate cancer in A-A with low Calcium is due vitamin D receptor gene – July 2013
- Vitamin D Receptor genes bb and BB and Osteoporosis, esp. for blacks – meta-analysis Nov 2012
The articles in Diabetes and Darker Skin are here:
- Children in India – 1 in 7 extremely low Vitamin D, 1 in 10 prediabetic – Sept 2019
- Blacks die more often than whites of many diseases (they have less vitamin D) – 2012
- Diabetic blacks – 80 percent had low vitamin D (less than 20 ng) a decade before – Sept 2017
- Diabetes is associated with low vitamin D in various races, but not blacks – Sept 2015
- Diabetes (Type 1) 14X more likely in dark skin children with low levels of vitamin D – May 2015
- Obese diabetics with dark skins not benefit from 6,000 IU of vitamin D daily (no surprise) – RCT March 2015
- Diabetic glycation control is inversely related to Vitamin D in India – Feb 2015
- Type I diabetes in dark skin children associated with low vitamin D if far from equator – Jan 2015
- Dr. Holick video on vitamin D - March 2013
- African-Americans at high risk of obesity and diabetes - 2011
- Type 1 Diabetes associated with low vitamin D, especially in dark skinned youths – Dec 2012
- Hyperglycemia in black veterans is associated with low vitamin D – Nov 2012
- Diabetics with darker skin were more vitamin D deficient – May 2012
- Low vitamin D associated with obesity-related diseases for ethnic minorities – Sept 2011
- 97 percent of Native American children have less than 30 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2011
- Diabetic neuropathy and low vitamin D, especially in blacks - July 2011
- Studies linked low vitamin D and dark skin to Obesity, Diabetes, and heart – June 2011
- Not yet certain that vitamin D reduces cardiovascular and diabetes in blacks – Mar 2011
- Diabetes Statistics including more diabetes with darker skin – 2007
- Insulin resistance correlated with low vitamin D levels in Arab Americans – June 2010
- Insulin sensitivity associated with Vit D in A-A April 2010
- Vitamin D deficiency and insulin insensitivity in African Americans - 2010
The articles in Cardiovascular and Dark Skin:
- After Heart Failure Blacks are 45 percent more likely to re-enter the hospital in a month – Oct 2020
- Hypertension not controlled by 26 ng of Vitamin D (50,000 IU bi-weekly A-A) – RCT Nov 2017
- Cardiovascular death reduction in dark skin migrants by just 1,000 IU of vitamin D – May 2015
- Types of vitamin D, African American teenage girls, and measures of heart fitness – Dec 2014
- Low vitamin D is a risk factor for vascular diseases in African Americans - Aug 2012
- Low vitamin D increases risk of cardiovascular disease in African Americans – 2011
- Low vitamin D associated with obesity-related diseases for ethnic minorities – Sept 2011
- Vitamin D accounts for 25 percent of the racial differences in blood pressure – Oct 2011
- Striking ethnic health disparity – blacks dying due to lack of vitamin D – Nov 2011
- Studies linked low vitamin D and dark skin to Obesity, Diabetes, and heart – June 2011
- 50000 IU vitamin D2 weekly helped blacks with heart problems – Feb 2011
- Not yet certain that vitamin D reduces cardiovascular and diabetes in blacks – Mar 2011
- Improved blood flow in blacks with just 2000 IU of vitamin D – Feb 2011
- Calcium with Vitamin D2 then D3 helps A-A after heart failure – Jan 2011
- Aortas of 16 year old blacks helped by 2000 IU of vitamin D – July 2010
- Race CVD and Vitamin D - Newsletter Mar 2010
- VitDCouncilMarch2010
SCD 2X more likely in Dark Skin than Wwhite Skin (males and females) - Nov 2018 no mention of Vitamin D
INTERVENTION AND Skin - Dark
- Urgency Urinary Incontinence in senior black women decreased 40 percent by weekly 50,000 IU vitamin D – RCT Dec 2018
- Physical performance of black senior women not improved with 30 ng of Vitamin D – RCT Nov 2018
- Half of obese black teens achieved at least 30 ng of Vitamin D with 5,000 IU daily – June 2018
- Less response to 800 IU of Vitamin D by Africans than natives in Finland – RCT March 2018
- Hypertension not controlled by 26 ng of Vitamin D (50,000 IU bi-weekly A-A) – RCT Nov 2017
- Vitamin D needed to get children to just 20 ng in winter 800 IU white skin, 1100 IU dark (Sweden) – RCT June 2017
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015
- Multiple Myeloma (blood cell cancer) treated by vitamin D - many studies
- Monthly vitamin D (120,000 IU) got most overweight African Americans about 35 ng – RCT July 2015
- Cardiovascular death reduction in dark skin migrants by just 1,000 IU of vitamin D – May 2015
- Sickle cell Vitamin D deficiency corrected with 160 K IU loading dose – July 2014
- Many healthy African Americans got above 33 ng with 4,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT March 2014
- Inflammation in African Americans not reduced with 3 months of 4000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Dec 2013
- 150,000 IU vitamin D reduced pain in immigrants – RCT Dec 2012
- 14000 IU vitamin D (50000 twice a week) often stops Sickle Cell pain
10 health problems associated with Dark Skin (low vitamin D) on Vitamin D Life
Here are all of the wikipages
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- COVID-19 was killing dark-skinned doctors, then they got a Vitamin D recommendation
- COVID-19 antibodies 2.6 X more likely if had symptoms and low vitamin D (UK hospital staff)– Oct 5 2020
- After Heart Failure Blacks are 45 percent more likely to re-enter the hospital in a month – Oct 2020
- Vitamin D could knock out COVID-19 in 3 months – Dr. Matthews interview Oct 2020
- Rate of COVID-19 test positive is 40 pcnt lower if high vitamin D (192,000 people) - Holick Sept 2020
- COVID-19 increased: 3.5 if Ultra-Orthodox, 2.6X if dark skin (52,000 Israelis) - Sept, 2020
- Multiple Sclerosis 42X more likely if light brown skin and smoke (both associated with low vitamin D) – July 2020
- People from the Indian continent living in the UK continue to have extremely low levels of Vitamin D – July 2020
- COVID-19 is harder for those with dark skins - perhaps due to low vitamin D – April 24, 2020
- Vitamin D Status May Help Explain Maternal Race and Ethnic Factors in Primary Cesarean Section Delivery – April 2020
- COVID-19 more frequent and deadly for those with dark skins (high risk of low vitamin D)
- Indications of increase COVID-19 problems if dark skin in the UK- April 3 2020
- Sweat types, folate, binding protein, lighter skin in females and Vitamin D – Jan 2020
- Low Vitamin D in Nordic countries – supplementation, fortification, only 20 ng – Jan 2020
- Dark-skin plus low vitamin D in first trimester made preterm birth 2.9 X more likely – Dec 2019
- Nigerian albinos have vitamin D levels of 96 ng – Oct 2019
- Vitality recaptured with Vitamin D (stories of Swedish immigrant women in this case) – Dec 2019
- Children in India – 1 in 7 extremely low Vitamin D, 1 in 10 prediabetic – Sept 2019
- Every single Taekwondo (indoor) Korean teen had low Vitamin D – Sept 2019
- Need 1 hour of daily of noon sun to get Hijab women at equator to even 20 ng of Vitamin D – June 2019
- Increased health problems in blacks is similar to that of low vitamin D whites (John Singleton Stroke)
- Low vitamin D in pregnancy linked to potentially harmful vaginal bacteria in black women - May 2019
- Vitamin D level of outdoor workers in India was only 18 ng– May 2019
- Pregnant while black increases chance of death – mothers 3X, infants 2X (low Vitamin D) – Feb 2019
- Sleep fragmentation 2X worse in UK senior women having dark skins – Jan 2019
- African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s (Vitamin D)
- Vitamin D, trauma, and blacks - Dr. Matthews interview with transcript - Jan 2019
- Response to UV varies more with pigment genes and age than skin color – Jan 2019
- Swedish TV Warns 'Dark-Skinned' People, Muslims of Vitamin D Deficiency - Dec 2018
- Urgency Urinary Incontinence in senior black women decreased 40 percent by weekly 50,000 IU vitamin D – RCT Dec 2018
- 10 health problems associated with Dark Skin (low vitamin D)
- Black infant recurrent wheezing rate dropped from 42 percent to 31 percent with just 400 IU of vitamin D – RCT Dec 2018
- All preteen aged girls in India taking 2,000 IU of vitamin D got levels above 20 ng – RCT Nov 2018
- Physical performance of black senior women not improved with 30 ng of Vitamin D – RCT Nov 2018
- Low birth weight far more likely if African-American (low vitamin D) – 1997, Aug 2018
- Race changes the risk of various health problems, but many questions remain – Sept 2018
- Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (Wash D.C) invited Dr. Matthews to speak to them on Vitamin D – Sept 2018
- Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder increasing (2.7X in US Blacks under age 18 in 20 years) – Sept 2018
- Africa
- International Conference of Vitamin D Fortification of Food (India) – Sept 2018
- Vitamin D needed for 12 ng in winter in Finland – Whites 320 IU, Blacks 720 IU – July 2018
- Half of obese black teens achieved at least 30 ng of Vitamin D with 5,000 IU daily – June 2018
- IQ levels around the world are falling (perhaps lower Vitamin D, Iodine, or Omega-3)
- Less response to 800 IU of Vitamin D by Africans than natives in Finland – RCT March 2018
- Vitamin D should be an almost universal feature of the care of young adults with sickle cell disease – May 2018
- Vitamin D paradox – Blacks need Vit D for health, but not as much D for strong bones – May 2018
- Stroke outcome 6.9 X worse if black and overweight (all three related via low vitamin D) – March 2018
- Indoor pollution is a problem with obese black asthmatic children – May 2018
- Half of US high school students will have dark skins by 2025
- Blacks are more obese, have lower Vitamin D, and have more Cancer etc. than whites – Feb 2018
- Depressed black pregnant women should take vitamin D – April 2018
- Racial differences in health problems (premature births) disappeared when vitamin D levels were the same – April 2018
- Blacks die more often than whites of many diseases (they have less vitamin D) – 2012
- Senior Blacks with low vitamin D were 2X more likely to experience cognitive decline 5 years later – March 2018
- Rate of vitamin D supplementation by Blacks increases 16X after getting Multiple Sclerosis – Feb 2018
- Sickle Cell clinical trial will inject 300,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT due 2020
- 10 reasons for poor response to Vitamin D (race, binding protein, etc.) – Nov 2017
- Bone loss during black pregnancies – 4000 IU of vitamin D was not enough – Dec 2017
- Crohn's disease in black children is worse in 6 ways – Dec 2015
- Prostate Cancer risk in black men increased 2X having poor Vitamin D Binding Protein – July 2017
- Hypertension not controlled by 26 ng of Vitamin D (50,000 IU bi-weekly A-A) – RCT Nov 2017
- Breast cancer in blacks – 5X increased risk of triple negative if low vitamin D – Oct 2017
- TB risk in Blacks increased 20 percent having poor Vitamin D Receptors – Sept 2017
- Genes for light skin – 29,000 and 900,000 years old – Oct 2017
- ICU - lots of vitamin D in first week helped the dark skinned - April 2017
- Hypertension is more likely in those with darker skins (low vitamin D) 2017
- STD rates are highest if dark skin, and US rates are increasing – Sept 2017
- Diabetic blacks – 80 percent had low vitamin D (less than 20 ng) a decade before – Sept 2017
- Black infants far less likely to be breast-fed (wonder – culture or low Vitamin D) – Aug 2017
- Raised skin scars (keloid) have fewer Vitamin D Receptors – Aug 2017
- Malay women 14 X more likely to be Vitamin D deficient than Chinese in Malay – July 2017
- Vitamin D needed to get children to just 20 ng in winter 800 IU white skin, 1100 IU dark (Sweden) – RCT June 2017
- Rickets in Norway – 93 percent had darker skin (lower vitamin D) – May 2017
- Preterm birth more likely if dark skinned and low vitamin D (not white-skinned) – April 2017
- Bibliography of Black-White health disparities linked to vitamin D - Dr. Grant March 2017
- Dark skin pregnancies 2.6 times more likely to have low vitamin D – March 2017
- Prostate cancer in black men is 1.6 times more likely if a poor Vitamin D Receptor – Feb 2017
- The Evolution of Diverse Vitamin D Requirements – Masterjohn video Aug 2016
- Many US kids have less than 40 ng of Vitamin D – 99 out of 100 blacks, 91 out of 100 whites – Jan 2017
- Aggressive Prostate Cancer in blacks with low vitamin D – 7X more likely if added Calcium – Jan 2017
- The UVB–vitamin D3–pigment hypothesis is alive and well (behind short paywall) - Aug 2016
- Blacks with strokes having low Vitamin D were 3 times more likely to have cognitive impairment – Nov 2016
- Low vitamin D 5 times more likely in poor and ethnic neighborhoods (than the best in Dublin) – Nov 2016
- Vitamin D levels of East African tribes
- Higher rate of prostate cancer in AA may decrease if take vitamin D – July 2016
- Premature birth and infant mortality worse if dark skin (low vitamin D) - 2015
- Small for gestational age with low vitamin D – 3.6X higher for blacks than whites – April 2016
- Autism with intellectual disability 2.5 times more likely if low vitamin D during pregnancy – April 2016
- Dark-skinned hunter-gatherers may generate 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily - June 2016
- Increase in Vitamin D deficiency with weight and skin darkness – chart – March 2016
- Ethnicity and low vitamin D levels during pregnancy – Jan 2016
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015
- Multiple Myeloma (blood cell cancer) treated by vitamin D - many studies
- Diabetes is associated with low vitamin D in various races, but not blacks – Sept 2015
- African-Americans with poor sleep have lower levels of vitamin D – Aug 2015
- Bioavailable Vitamin D is the same blacks and whites, but measured vit D is not – Oct 2014
- Migrants from Middle East are slightly more vitamin D deficient than those from Africa - meta-analysis Aug 2015
- Prostate Cancer incidence and death 2X more often among black men (vitamin D not mentioned) - July 2015
- Monthly vitamin D (120,000 IU) got most overweight African Americans about 35 ng – RCT July 2015
- Diabetes (Type 1) 14X more likely in dark skin children with low levels of vitamin D – May 2015
- Kidney Cancer differences with skin color probably due to vitamin D differences – May 2015
- African immigrants: half are vitamin D deficient (based on Caucasian measures) – May 2015
- The darker the child’s skin, the lower the vitamin D level (Spain) – March 2014
- Sickle Cell children need more than 7,000 IU of vitamin D daily – May 2015
- Cardiovascular death reduction in dark skin migrants by just 1,000 IU of vitamin D – May 2015
- Off topic – Skin luminance and hue – June 2015
- Suicide rate among Native American teens increasing (yet no mention of low vitamin D) – May 2015
- Obese diabetics with dark skins not benefit from 6,000 IU of vitamin D daily (no surprise) – RCT March 2015
- Diabetic glycation control is inversely related to Vitamin D in India – Feb 2015
- Inflammation Anemia in Blacks 8X more likely if less than 20 ng of vitamin D – April 2015
- NCAA athletes – one third had low levels of vitamin D, 19X more likely if black race – March 2015
- Pain following auto accident is worse if low vitamin D (for African Americans) – April 2015
- Blacks have 4X more Kidney disease than whites – probably due to low vitamin D – March 2015
- Overview Sickle Cell and Vitamin D
- Avoiding the sun (and vitamin D) – most Chinese medical students do not want darker skins – Feb 2015
- Blacks have lower vitamin D levels, but OK active vitamin D levels (VDBP) - Feb 2015
- Darker skin smokers have lower levels of vitamin D – Feb 2015
- Type I diabetes in dark skin children associated with low vitamin D if far from equator – Jan 2015
- Types of vitamin D, African American teenage girls, and measures of heart fitness – Dec 2014
- African Americans need vitamin D intervention as well as education – Dec 2014
- The darker the skin, the lower the level of vitamin D – even in tropical Malaysia – Nov 2014
- Tanning potential predicts risk of Prostate Cancer in Blacks – Nov 2014
- Dark skinned children were vitamin D deficient in Italy (not infants) – Nov 2014
- Metabolites of pregnant blacks vary with vitamin D level – Nov 2014
- Dark skinned in Norway: 1000 IU vitamin D not enough to reduce pain – RCT Sept 2014
- HIV – lower vitamin D if Black, higher if PI monotherapy – Oct 2013
- Off topic: CDC deleted a 3X increase in black male autism due to vaccination – whistle blowing Aug 2014
- Little variation in vitamin D levels with skin color in Brazil – July 2014
- Darker skins generated much less vitamin D from a single UVB dose – Nov 2013
- Vitamin D levels lower during darker skin pregnancy, but bone density is OK – Dec 2013
- Cancer patients at high risk of vitamin D deficiency were not tested as often (paradoxically) – July 2014
- PSA levels in blacks were not changed by 3 months of 4,000 IU of vitamin D (not enough) – June 2014
- Vitamin D levels of blacks are lower and more skewed (non gausian) the further from equator – July 2014
- Sickle cell Vitamin D deficiency corrected with 160 K IU loading dose – July 2014
- Vitamin D-binding protein and vitamin D status of black Americans and white Americans – Nov 2013
- Dark-skined mothers: preeclampsia 12X more likely if gestational hypertension – May 2014
- Colon cancer more likely in blacks due to differences in Vitamin D genes (wonder if more Vitamin D would help) – May 2014
- Bone density does not decrease with lower vitamin D levels in blacks as it does in whites – April 2014
- Darned ancestors: Light skin is more expensive than dark skin
- Infertility rate is 2X higher for blacks than whites (no mention of vitamin D, nor the man) – April 2014
- Australia – 25 percent of whites have less than 20 ng of vitamin D – April 2014
- Race, immunity, and levels of vitamin D - April 2014
- Black prisoners have lower vitamin D than whites in maximum security – March 2014
- Hypothesis - Dark skin evolved to avoid skin cancer - Feb 2014
- Dark skinned NCAA basketball players were 15X more likely to have low vitamin D – Feb 2014
- Lung capacity (Vo2max) reduced in senior African American women with low vitamin D – Feb 2014
- Why India's vitamin D deficiency is grim - 40 pages Feb 2014
- Many healthy African Americans got above 33 ng with 4,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT March 2014
- Inflammation in African Americans not reduced with 3 months of 4000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Dec 2013
- 78 percent of pregnant immigrants in Sweden had less than 10 ng low vitamin D – Nov 2013
- Skin cancer risk and vitamin D from sun both decrease with darker skin – March 2013
- Depression in pregnant blacks strongly associated to vitamin D levels – Nov 2012
- Another indiction that lower level of vitamin D are OK in blacks – Anemia Oct 2013
- Vitamin D deficiency diseases in dark skinned people living far from equator – Meta-analysis Oct 2013
- Off topic: Low-income black churches interest in early disease detection
- 2X less prostate cancer in A-A with low Calcium is due vitamin D receptor gene – July 2013
- Tuberculosis, ethnic differences, and vitamin D – July 2013
- Breastfed Infants in Iowa got very little vitamin D, especially if winter or dark skin – July 2013
- Ricket was known to be associated with dark skin and breast feeding a century ago - 2005
- Increased risk of multiple sclerosis risk in African Americans due to genes – June 2013
- Chart of Vitamin D levels vs race - April 2013
- Black infants had far lower vitamin D levels which did not vary with season – Jan 2013
- Lupus in blacks associated with low vitamin D AND short telomeres – May 2013
- Most immigrant women in Sweden had little vitamin D and lots of muscle pain – May 2013
- Dark Skinned adults need more than 45 minutes of UK summer sun daily – June 2013
- Multiple Sclerosis: high incidence in black women than whites (perhaps vitamin D) – May 2013
- Genes in white blood cells of blacks associated with vitamin D deficiency – May 2013
- Sleep disorder and nonspecific pain implies low vitamin D, especially if dark skin – March 2013
- Lower vitamin D if born outside of Canada or lower education - April 2013
- Black women and vitamin D: Nigeria 26 ng, Chicago 12 ng – April 2013
- Dr. Holick video on vitamin D - March 2013
- Low Vitamin D with dark skin, even if live closer to equator and higher altitude – Feb 2013
- Immigrants and refugees had lower vitamin D levels – Jan 2013
- US Minorities have poor health – how much is due to little sun – Feb 2013
- Similar response to Vitamin D supplements by senior white and black women – Feb 2013
- African-Americans at high risk of obesity and diabetes - 2011
- Low vitamin D is a risk factor for vascular diseases in African Americans - Aug 2012
- Low vitamin D increases risk of cardiovascular disease in African Americans – 2011
- Vitamin D different relationship between whites and blacks for bone and plaque – June 2012
- First and 2nd generation migrants 2X more likely to have psychotic disorders – Jan 2013
- Sickle cell and low vitamin D – 3 presentations Dec 2012
- Type 1 Diabetes associated with low vitamin D, especially in dark skinned youths – Dec 2012
- 150,000 IU vitamin D reduced pain in immigrants – RCT Dec 2012
- Autism associated with low UVB – Oct 2012
- Vitamin D Receptor genes bb and BB and Osteoporosis, esp. for blacks – meta-analysis Nov 2012
- Hyperglycemia in black veterans is associated with low vitamin D – Nov 2012
- Skin - Dark
- Blacks had lower vitamin D and more quantifiable pain than whites with knee osteoarthritis – Nov 2012
- IBD surgery 5X more likely for non-caucasians with low vitamin D – Oct 2012
- Differences in black and non-black mortality and vitamin D – Oct 2012
- Hypothesis: Vitamin D is related to breast cancer racial disparities in the US - Sept 2012
- More US deaths due to cancer than heart if dark skinned – Sept 2012
- African-Americans need only 20 ng of vitamin, not 30 ng, based on iPTH – Sept 2012
- Dark skinned pregnant women far from equator were very vitamin D deficient – Sept 2012
- Forearm fracture 3.5X more often in black children with low levels of vitamin D – Sept 2012
- Off topic: Only 30 percent of African American children know how to swim – Aug 2012
- 83 percent of children had less than 20 ng of vitamin D – 15 ng avg for hispanic – Aug 2012
- Pregnant blacks 50 pcnt more likely to be depressed if 3 ng less vitamin D – July 2012
- 98 percent of black women had less than 20 ng of vitamin D – July 2012
- Blacks with HIV were 3.5X more likely to be vitamin D deficient than whites – May 2012
- Fair skin has lower vitamin D levels than dark skin – contrary to other studies – 2009
- Half of the US will be people of color – wonder how many will be vitamin D deficient
- Survey finds that Non-Caucasians do not feel that people need sun exposure – July 2012
- Extra 4,000 IU daily raised the vitamin D levels of blacks to that of whites – July 2012
- Bariatric surgery less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 82 pcnt teens, 100 pcnt of black teens – June 2012
- Hypothesis: Blacks get more cancer than whites due to lower levels of vitamin D – June 2012
- Head and Neck Cancer associated with low vitamin D, especially with blacks - April 2012
- 5 out of 6 UK dark skinned kids who were vitamin D deficient had no symptoms – May 2012
- Seniors in North Indian: half have sore bones, 98 pcnt have less than 30 ng vitamin D – Nov 2011
- Diabetics with darker skin were more vitamin D deficient – May 2012
- Hispanics with MS had lower levels of vitamin D which did not vary seasonally – May 2012
- Psychosis in dark skinned people 3.5 X higher if low level of vitamin D – May 2012
- 79 percent of TB in East London less 20 ng vitamin D - April 2012
- Vitamin D and Inuit (dark skin) – April 2012
- 80 percent of South Asian Women in UK had less than 10 ng of vitamin D in winter – April 2012
- Black Sudanese children 350X more likely to have rickets than other Australians – April 2012
- Sickle Cell Anemia: 64 percent had less than 10ng of vitamin D – April 2012
- Abu Dhabi 2012 - Haq
- Genes may account for some of AA Breast Cancer – April 2012
- CDC vitamin D statistics for women: including blacks and high BMI – March 2012
- CDC Nutrients: 30 percent dark skinned have less than 20 ng of vitamin D - March 2012
- Crohn’s Disease strongly associated with low vitamin D in South Asians – March 2012
- Another urban area in a sunny climate is vitamin D deficient – Bangkok Nov 2011
- Skin color and vitamin D – Jablonski – Spring 2012
- Virtually all young Koreans had less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 2012
- More gut problems with a dark skinned people – March 2012
- Perhaps optimal bioavailable vitamin D level is the same in blacks and whites – March 2012
- Mayo clinic providing free vitamin D tests for blacks in Florida – Feb 2012
- Low vitamin D associated with obesity-related diseases for ethnic minorities – Sept 2011
- Human skin pigmentation, migration and disease susceptibility – Mar 2012
- Vitamin D Helps Atlanta High School Athletes - Feb 2012
- Dark skin does not generate as much vitamin D from the same amount of UV – Nov 2011
- Hypothesis: Vitamin D will decrease CVD and diabetes in African Americans – May 2011
- Rickets in 30 percent of infants in India who had low vitamin D – March 2011
- Vitamin D accounts for 25 percent of the racial differences in blood pressure – Oct 2011
- First vitamin D book for blacks – 2011
- Traditionally living Africans have 46 ng vitamin D levels – Jan 2012
- Twice as many fatal strokes among whites who were low on vitamin D – Jan 2012
- Even young Caucasians do not get enough time in the sun – Oct 2011
- 73 percent of Australians had too little vitamin D – Dec 2011
- Africans in Europe might only need 19 ng of vitamin D – estimated from PTH July 2011
- VA found less testing for vitamin D resulted in increased health costs – Jan 2012
- 28 pct of dark skinned people in UK not heard of vitamin D and 54 pct not know symptoms – Jan 2012
- Reasons for low response to vitamin D
- 20 ng of vitamin D is enough for African American PTH – Dec 2011
- Genetic differences explain some of vitamin D variation in African-Americans Dec 2011
- Immigrant vitamin D deficiency in Europe – May 2011
- Striking ethnic health disparity – blacks dying due to lack of vitamin D – Nov 2011
- Blacks living in urban area vs rural have less vitamin D if older than 50 – Oct 2011
- Blacks may need less vitamin D than whites – PTH Aug 2010
- Diseases of obesity strongly associated with vitamin D deficiency in ethnic minorities – Sept 2011
- Second generation dark skinned immigrants live shorter lives
- 97 percent of Native American children have less than 30 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2011
- Telomeres improved when obese blacks took 2000 IU of vitamin D daily – Oct 2011
- Black seniors near equator: increased vitamin D decreases bone density – Sept 2011
- Black veterans have worse health and low vitamin D, yet are not tested as much – June 2011
- Dark Skinned youths and vitamin D in Southern Canada - Dissertation 2011
- Review of Vitamin D Deficiencies in developing countries - Oct 2011
- 14000 IU vitamin D (50000 twice a week) often stops Sickle Cell pain
- Blacks have low vitamin D and have 50 percent more kidney failure – Sept 2011
- Graphs of diseases vs vitamin D levels - and D3 vs D2- April 2011
- Breast cancer worse for black women – Sept 2011
- Blacks have more pre-term births due to low nutrients such as vitamin D – Sept 2011
- 88 percent of African immigrants to Melborne had less than 20 ng of vitamin D
- Disadvantaged get less sun and have poor health in the North– Aug 2011
- Black women lacking Calcium and Vitamin D weighed more – Aug 2011
- Vitamin D insufficiency in UK youths – 37X more likely if dark skin – July 2011
- Diabetic neuropathy and low vitamin D, especially in blacks - July 2011
- Black members of Adventist church defy health disparities – June 2011
- Vitamin D Council vs FDA concerning vitamin D deficiency in blacks and others - June 2011
- Studies linked low vitamin D and dark skin to Obesity, Diabetes, and heart – June 2011
- Dark skinned teens use media much more - June 2011
- Blacks not taking mulitvitamins were 5X more likely to be vitamin D insufficient– June 2011
- Race vs vitamin D level - Veith May 2011
- Hypothesis - 40 ng is enough vitamin D if high latitude or dark skin
- Canadian Vitamin D deficiency – May 2011
- Skin pigmentation predicted bone mineral content in Hawaii – April 2011
- Dark skinned obese not helped much by weekly 50000 IU dose of vitamin D – May 2011
- Dark skinned Caribbean seniors have enough vitamin D – April 2011
- Dark skin births are much riskier due to lack of vitamin D
- 30 percent of US had less than 20 ng of vitamin D - CDC March 2011
- 42 percent of US adults less than 20 ng of vitamin D and 82 percent of blacks – Jan 2011
- 50000 IU vitamin D2 weekly helped blacks with heart problems – Feb 2011
- Vitamin D levels in Israel vs skin type and age – Mar 2011
- Not yet certain that vitamin D reduces cardiovascular and diabetes in blacks – Mar 2011
- Obese children had low vitamin D – fat under dark skin – fat in white body – Mar 2011
- Red Alert – one in three pre-teens in Tehran had less than 5 ng of vitamin D – Feb 2011
- Vitamin D and fertility and birth problems with dark skin – Jan 2011
- Improved blood flow in blacks with just 2000 IU of vitamin D – Feb 2011
- South African white children 48 ng vitamin D – black 37 ng – Feb 2011
- Vitamin D bed used 4 minutes daily by dark skin members of UK sports team – Jan 2011
- Anemia associated with lower than 20 ng vitamin D among elderly – Jan 2011
- Calcium with Vitamin D2 then D3 helps A-A after heart failure – Jan 2011
- Autism more frequent from mothers who are dark skinned or veiled – Jan 2011
- Very low vitamin D for first pregnancies and those with dark skin – Jan 2011
- Blacks are still not getting enough vitamin D – Dec 2010
- Many possible associations of increased asthma in black children – Nov 2010
- 2000 IU raised black teens vitamin D level to 34 ng and they lost fat – Oct 2010
- End stage kidney disease almost 3X more likely for blacks – 2009
- Blacks may not need as much Vitamin D (for their bones)
- Lack of vitamin D closely associated with black health disparities – Nov 2010
- Blacks similar to elderly in vitamin D status – Dec 2008
- Breast cancer more deadly for blacks than whites
- Low vitamin D in blacks increases colorectal cancer deaths 40 percent – Cancer Oct 2010
- Do blacks have a 5 year life penalty due to low vitamin D
- 80 year old blacks 3X more likely to be low on vitamin D than whites – Dec 2008
- Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D
- Skin color and clothing but not sunscreens reduce vitamin D – Oct 2010
- Low vitamin D before orthopedic surgery – dark skin 5X more likely – Oct 2010
- Blacks and whites may need different levels of vitamin D etc – Sept 2010
- 86 percent with TB did not have 30 ng of vitamin D and many were black – Sept 2010
- 97 percent of pregnant Blacks had less than 32 ng of vitamin D - 2010
- Vitamin D blood levels vary with estimated amount of African Ancestry – Sept 2010
- White children in Johannesburg do not need vitamin D supplements – Sept 2010
- Hypothesis of Diet disease and pigment variation in humans – April 2010
- 800 IU Vitamin D better than sunlight for non-western immigrants – Aug 2010
- Elderly black women had low vitamin D which did not increase in the summer – Jan 2010
- Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among asthmatic African-Americans – Aug 2010
- Obesity in American-Indians and African-American teens
- African-American medical risks
- Hypothesis that lack of vitamin D increases blood pressure in blacks – July 2010
- Skin color may not be entirely related to amount of sunshine
- African-Americans and MS
- Most people have pale palms which do not tan
- Pregnant women vitamin D insuficiency Black 97 Hispanic 81 White 67 percent – July 2010
- Aortas of 16 year old blacks helped by 2000 IU of vitamin D – July 2010
- The more the African Ancestry, the lower the vitamin D level – July 2010
- Dark skin people in Norway 2X more deficient and have 3X more headaches if low on vitamin D – July 2010
- Will doses of vitamin D up to 6000 IU reduce osteoporosis in black women - July 2010
- Diabetes Statistics including more diabetes with darker skin – 2007
- Vitamin D and multiracial teens in US – March 2009
- Low vitamin D among black teens – March 2009
- Virtually all black dialysis patients with low albumin are vitamin D deficient in the winter – Mar 2010
- Vitamin D3 in obese and non obese African American children – 2008
- Teens increasingly indoors - especially if dark skin
- Majority of blacks on dialysis were vitamin D deficient - March 2010
- Large increase in dark skin children with vitamin D deficiency in Glasgow – June 2010
- Barefoot on mega doses of vitamin D and his book on Cancer
- Low vitamin D in teens: especially black or overweight – June 2010
- To increase vitamin D levels in children need 1000 or 2000 IU – June 2010
- Women with lighter skin had on average 4 ng less vitamin D in their blood – 2009
- Insulin resistance correlated with low vitamin D levels in Arab Americans – June 2010
- Epigenetics and vitamin D – June 2010 clips from the web
- CVD deaths related to low vitamin D, especially in people with dark skin – 2010
- A-A need 2100 to 3100 IU every day all year – March 2010
- 2X more people have less than 30 ng of vitamin D in a decade – Feb 2010
- Dark Skinned babies probably need vitamin D to prevent nutritional rickets - 2001
- Insulin sensitivity associated with Vit D in A-A April 2010
- Even in Sunny Areas, Vitamin D Intake Often Too Low - May 2010
- Vitamin D levels dropped after training for white, but not black females April 2010
- Skin color resulted in lower vitamin D levels in Florida - April 2010
- Vitamin D deficiency and insulin insensitivity in African Americans - 2010
- Low vitamin D in minority children
- Arthritis 2X as severe in African-Americans - April 2010
- Race CVD and Vitamin D - Newsletter Mar 2010
- Eskimos evolved to get and limit Vitamin D from food
- VitDCouncilMarch2010
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