Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Vitamin D deficiency is an important public health problem because of its great impact on bone metabolism and the possible implication in cardiovascular outcomes, diabetes, cancer and mortality. Cross-sectional studies have related vitamin D deficiency with the prevalence of diabetes but there are only a few prospective cohort studies on the incidence of type 2 diabetes.Objective: To investigate the relationship between levels of 25-hydroxyvi...