"The study found that prediabetic adults who have gene variations in their vitamin D receptors have a 19% lower risk of developing diabetes. Initially, the study did not reveal a noteworthy difference in those diabetics that took vitamin D compared to those who didn't. However, in an earlier analysis of the research, the D2d Research Group found that the certain group of the study that had higher levels of vitamin D had "progressively larger reductions in participants' risk of developing diabetes.""
""Diabetes has so many serious complications that develop slowly over years," said Bess Dawson-Hughes, lead author and senior scientist at Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. "If we can delay the time period that an individual will spend living with diabetes, we can stop some of those harmful side effects or lessen their severity.""
"Dawson-Hughes and her team's new analysis revealed that adults with diabetes that have the AC and CC variations of the vitamin D receptor gene who took the vitamin D doses saw a remarkable drop in the risk of developing diabetes compared to the control group. Those who had the AA variation of the vitamin D receptor did not respond to the daily vitamin D treatment."
About 98 million Americans have prediabetes and about 34 million have type 2 diabetes, totaling roughly 38% of the U.S. population. Research by the D2d Research Group found that high-dose vitamin D may help delay or prevent diabetes progression. Prediabetic adults with gene variations in vitamin D receptors had a 19% lower risk of developing diabetes. An initial analysis showed no major difference between vitamin D and control groups, but an earlier analysis found progressively larger reductions in diabetes risk among participants with higher vitamin D levels. A new analysis found that adults with diabetes carrying AC and CC vitamin D receptor gene variations who took vitamin D had a marked drop in risk compared with controls, while AA variation showed no response.
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