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ea0031p222 | Obesity, diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular | SFEBES2013

Vitamin D supplementation as influenced by diabetic therapies

Alkharfy Khalid , Al-Daghri Nasser , Al-Othman Abdulaziz , Moharram Osama , Alokail Majed , Al-Saleh Yousef , Sabico Shaun , McTernan Philip

Objective: Vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increased risk of type two diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease reduced through Vitamin D3 supplementation. However to the best of our knowledge, no research has determined the effect of vitamin D3 supplementation in conjunction with existing pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to the DMT2 population. Hence, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of vitamin D3 supplementation in a co...