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Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D


FACT - - People with dark skins have more health problems and higher mortality rate than those with light skins
FACT - - People with dark skins have low levels of vitamin D
FACT - - People with light skins who have low vitamin D have health problems
OBSERVATION - - The health problems of whites with low level of vitamin D are similar to those with dark skins
CONCLUSION - - People with dark skins have more health problems due to low levels of vitamin D
African American Health Disparities are associated with low Vitamin D - Grant Feb 2021
Low Vitamin D increases health problems - independent of skin color
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Dark Skin studies: Pregnancy (28 studies),  Genetics (13 studies),  Vitamin D Binding Protein (8 studies),  Vitamin D Receptor (7 studies),  Diabetes (24 studies),   Cardiovascular (18 studies),  Mortality (12 studies), Intervention (16 studies) Click here to see the studies


Increased Death Rate with Dark Skin- - - - - - -


Chart of Vitamin D levels vs race - April 2013 has the following

Vitamin D vs Race at is.gd/vitD_race
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The Black/White survival discrepancy peaks at age 78: chronic illness

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US vitamin D deficiency vs skin color details were reported by CDC March 2012

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see wikipage: http://www.vitad.org/tiki-index.php?page_id=645


Amount of vitamin D deficiency depends on amount of African-American blood (genes)

CLICK HERE for more information


The health disparity for dark skinned people is almost the same as whites having a low level of vitamin D

Black
vs White
White - low D
vs White - high D
breast cancer 1.34 1.26
colorectal cancer 1.43 1.44
cardiovascular disease1.29 1.27
all-cause mortality 1.26 1.26

CLICK HERE for details, Dr. Grant
Blacks die more often than whites of many diseases (they have less vitamin D) – 2012 contains the following summary
Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans Cancer.org

  • “African Americans have the highest death rate and shortest survival of any racial and ethnic group in the US for most cancers”
  • Has a huge number of tables and charts, Note: Vitamin D is not mentioned

Leading Causes of Death as of March 2018

All Ages Death rateBlackWhiteRatio
Heart diseases 217 1711.27
Cancer 1991701.17
Cerebrovascular diseases51361.4
Diabetes 40 192.0

Rates per 100,000    Age adjusted   Non-Hispanic



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See also associations: Pregnancy, Genes, VDBP, VDR, Diabetes, Mortality, Intervention at Skin - Dark category page


Samples of - Skin - Dark in Vitamin D Life

in wikipage: http://www.vitad.org/tiki-index.php?page_id=1660
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see wikipage:http://www.vitad.org/tiki-index.php?page_id=1752


Teens increasingly indoors 8.5 hours white, 13 hours dark skin


Vitamin D Supplementation in Young White and African American Women, Jan 2014

PDF is attached at the bottom of this page
White Women
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African American Women
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See also on the Web


Dark skins (less Vitamin D) = more Alzheimer's

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Association of Dark Skin with other categories

short URL for this page = http://is.gd/darkskind

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