Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Vitamin D deficiency is common worldwide. No homogenous reference values have yet been established and no studies of values have been done in Spain involving a large number of participants.Objective: To study the population concentrations of vitamin D in a representative sample of the Spanish population.Subjects/methods: The study involved two cohorts from Spain, the Asturias Study and the Pizarra Study, which are two p...

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...

Introduction and objective: The aim of this study has been to evaluate the relationship between vitamin D and iPTH levels and the status of carbohydrate metabolism in a representative sample of the Spanish population.Material and methods: The study was conducted in two population of northern and southern Spain, evaluated in the same period of time and with a similar methodology: Pizarra Study (Málaga) and Asturias Study. Subjects in both groups unde...