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
- Increased Death Rate with Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Chart of Vitamin D levels vs race - April 2013 has the following
- The Black/White survival discrepancy peaks at age 78: chronic illness
- US vitamin D deficiency vs skin color details were reported by CDC March 2012
- Amount of vitamin D deficiency depends on amount of African-American blood (genes)
- The health disparity for dark skinned people is almost the same as whites having a low level of vitamin D
- Skin - Dark category listing has
463 items along with related searches - Women and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Breast Cancer and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Rickets and Dark Skin- - - - -
- Hypertension and Dark Skin- - -
- Stroke and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Obesity and Dark Skin - - - - - - -
- Kidney and Dark Skin - - - - - -
- Multiple Sclerosis and Dark Skin - -
- Infant-Child and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Youths and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Pain and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- See also associations: Pregnancy, Genes, VDBP, VDR, Diabetes, Mortality, Intervention at Skin - Dark category page
- Samples of - Skin - Dark in Vitamin D Life
- Teens increasingly indoors 8.5 hours white, 13 hours dark skin
- Vitamin D Supplementation in Young White and African American Women, Jan 2014
- See also on the Web
- Dark skins (less Vitamin D) = more Alzheimer's
- Association of Dark Skin with other categories
Increased Death Rate with Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Dark-skinned children 3.4 X more likely to die after surgery than white skinned children NYT July 20, 2020
- reporting on a study in Pediatrics "Race, Postoperative Complications, and Death in Apparently Healthy Children" The word VITAMIN does not occur once in the study
- Do blacks have a 5 year life penalty due to low vitamin D from JAMA 2007
Heart Disease 1.3 years, HIV 0.6 years, Perinatal death 0.5 years, Stroke 0.4 years, Lung cancer 0.3 years,
Other cancer 0.3 years, Diabetes 0.3 years, Prostate cancer 0.3 years, Septicemia 0.2 years,
Hypertension 0.2 years, Nephritis 0.2 years, Homicide 1.0 years-Depression ?
Unintentional injuries 0.4 years (drugs, autos, falls) - Lack of vitamin D closely associated with black health disparities – Nov 2010 which includes:
Cardiovascular disease, Congestive heart failure, Chronic kidney disease, Cognitive impairment
Glucose metabolism, Peripheral arterial disease, End-stage renal disease, Diabetes
Cancer, Breast cancer, Colorectal cancer, Influenza, common cold, Sepsis, All-cause mortality rate - Black die younger than whites 2021
Chart of Vitamin D levels vs race - April 2013 has the following
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US vitamin D deficiency vs skin color details were reported by CDC March 2012
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Amount of vitamin D deficiency depends on amount of African-American blood (genes)
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The health disparity for dark skinned people is almost the same as whites having a low level of vitamin D
Black
vs WhiteWhite - low D
vs White - high Dbreast cancer 1.34 1.26 colorectal cancer 1.43 1.44 cardiovascular disease 1.29 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 rate Black White Ratio Heart diseases 217 171 1.27 Cancer 199 170 1.17 Cerebrovascular diseases 51 36 1.4 Diabetes 40 19 2.0 Rates per 100,000 Age adjusted Non-Hispanic
Skin - Dark category listing has
463 items along with related searches Women and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Menopause is earlier in black women (low vitamin D) - Aug 2023
- Immune systems of overweight black women improved by monthly 60,000 IU Vitamin D – RCT Oct 2022
- Vitality recaptured with Vitamin D (stories of Swedish immigrant women in this case) – Dec 2019
- Pregnant while black increases chance of death – mothers 3X, infants 2X (low Vitamin D) – Feb 2019
- Urgency Urinary Incontinence in senior black women decreased 40 percent by weekly 50,000 IU vitamin D – RCT Dec 2018
- Breast cancer in blacks – 5X increased risk of triple negative if low vitamin D – Oct 2017
- Malay women 14 X more likely to be Vitamin D deficient than Chinese in Malay – July 2017
- CDC vitamin D statistics for women: including blacks and high BMI – March 2012
- Dark skin pregnancies and Vitamin D - many studies
- Vitamin D levels dropped after training for white, but not black females April 2010
Breast Cancer and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Cancer of breast is highest in dark-skinned women (low Vitamin D: dark skin and obese) - Feb 2022
- Breast cancer in blacks – 5X increased risk of triple negative if low vitamin D – Oct 2017
- Hypothesis: Vitamin D is related to breast cancer racial disparities in the US - Sept 2012
- Genes may account for some of AA Breast Cancer – April 2012
- Breast cancer worse for black women – Sept 2011
- Breast cancer more deadly for blacks than whites
Rickets and Dark Skin- - - - -
- Rickets in Norway – 93 percent had darker skin (lower vitamin D) – May 2017
- Vitamin D deficiency diseases in dark skinned people living far from equator – Meta-analysis Oct 2013
- Ricket was known to be associated with dark skin and breast feeding a century ago - 2005
- Black Sudanese children 350X more likely to have rickets than other Australians – April 2012
- Rickets in 30 percent of infants in India who had low vitamin D – March 2011
- Dark Skinned babies probably need vitamin D to prevent nutritional rickets - 2001
Hypertension and Dark Skin- - -
- Stroke 3 times more likely if dark skin woman has Hypertension before age 35 - Feb 2024
- 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D
- Increased health problems in blacks is similar to that of low vitamin D whites (John Singleton Stroke)
- Hypertension is more likely in those with darker skins (low vitamin D) 2017
- Vitamin D different relationship between whites and blacks for bone and plaque – June 2012
- Vitamin D accounts for 25 percent of the racial differences in blood pressure – Oct 2011
- Hypothesis that lack of vitamin D increases blood pressure in blacks – July 2010
Stroke and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
Obesity and Dark Skin - - - - - - -
- Predictors of low vitamin D: race, age, and BMI (confirmed now by Machine Learning) – Feb 2024
- Cancer of breast is highest in dark-skinned women (low Vitamin D: dark skin and obese) - Feb 2022
- Sarcopenia with obesity is more likely if dark skin, diabetes, OR COPD (all associated with low vitamin D)
- 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D
- Half of obese black teens achieved at least 30 ng of Vitamin D with 5,000 IU daily – June 2018
- Stroke outcome 6.9 X worse if black and overweight (all three related via low vitamin D) – March 2018
- Indoor pollution is a problem with obese black asthmatic children – May 2018
- Blacks are more obese, have lower Vitamin D, and have more Cancer etc. than whites – Feb 2018
- Increase in Vitamin D deficiency with weight and skin darkness – chart – March 2016
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015
- Obese diabetics with dark skins not benefit from 6,000 IU of vitamin D daily (no surprise) – RCT March 2015
- African-Americans at high risk of obesity and diabetes - 2011
- Bariatric surgery less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 82 pcnt teens, 100 pcnt of black teens – June 2012
- Low vitamin D associated with obesity-related diseases for ethnic minorities – Sept 2011
- Reasons for low response to vitamin D
- Telomeres improved when obese blacks took 2000 IU of vitamin D daily – Oct 2011
- Black women lacking Calcium and Vitamin D weighed more – Aug 2011
- Dark skinned obese not helped much by weekly 50000 IU dose of vitamin D – May 2011
- Black obese children had low vitamin D and more fat under skin than whites – Mar 2011
- Obesity in American-Indians and African-American teens
- Vitamin D3 in obese and non obese African American children – 2008
- Low vitamin D in teens: especially black or overweight – June 2010
Kidney and Dark Skin - - - - - -
- Vitamin D treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease: monthly better than daily – RCT May 2022
- 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D
- Kidney Cancer differences with skin color probably due to vitamin D differences – May 2015
- Blacks have 4X more Kidney disease than whites – probably due to low vitamin D – March 2015
- Blacks have low vitamin D and have 50 percent more kidney failure – Sept 2011
- End stage kidney disease almost 3X more likely for blacks – 2009
- Virtually all black dialysis patients with low albumin are vitamin D deficient in the winter – Mar 2010
- Majority of blacks on dialysis were vitamin D deficient - March 2010
Multiple Sclerosis and Dark Skin - -
- Multiple Sclerosis 42X more likely if light brown skin and smoke (both associated with low vitamin D) – July 2020
- Rate of vitamin D supplementation by Blacks increases 16X after getting Multiple Sclerosis – Feb 2018
- Increased risk of multiple sclerosis risk in African Americans due to genes – June 2013
- Multiple Sclerosis: high incidence in black women than whites (perhaps vitamin D) – May 2013
- Hispanics with MS had lower levels of vitamin D which did not vary seasonally – May 2012
- African-Americans and Multiple Sclerosis
Infant-Child and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Newly diagnosed Children with Cancer have low vitamin D, especially if black - May 2022
- Children in India – 1 in 7 extremely low Vitamin D, 1 in 10 prediabetic – Sept 2019
- Pregnant while black increases chance of death – mothers 3X, infants 2X (low Vitamin D) – Feb 2019
- Black infant recurrent wheezing rate dropped from 42 percent to 31 percent with just 400 IU of vitamin D – RCT Dec 2018
- All preteen aged girls in India taking 2,000 IU of vitamin D got levels above 20 ng – RCT Nov 2018
- Low birth weight far more likely if African-American (low vitamin D) – 1997, Aug 2018
- Indoor pollution is a problem with obese black asthmatic children – May 2018
- Crohn's disease in black children is worse in 6 ways – Dec 2015
- Black infants far less likely to be breast-fed (wonder – culture or low Vitamin D) – Aug 2017
- Vitamin D needed to get children to just 20 ng in winter 800 IU white skin, 1100 IU dark (Sweden) – RCT June 2017
- Many US kids have less than 40 ng of Vitamin D – 99 out of 100 blacks, 91 out of 100 whites – Jan 2017
- Small for gestational age with low vitamin D – 3.6X higher for blacks than whites – April 2016
- Type I diabetes in dark skin children associated with low vitamin D if far from equator – Jan 2015
- Dark skinned children were vitamin D deficient in Italy (not infants) – Nov 2014
- Breastfed Infants in Iowa got very little vitamin D, especially if winter or dark skin – July 2013
- Black infants had far lower vitamin D levels which did not vary with season – Jan 2013
- 83 percent of children had less than 20 ng of vitamin D – 15 ng avg for hispanic – Aug 2012
- Rickets in 30 percent of infants in India who had low vitamin D – March 2011
- Large increase in dark skin children with vitamin D deficiency in Glasgow – June 2010
- Dark Skinned babies probably need vitamin D to prevent nutritional rickets - 2001
Youths and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder increasing (2.7X in US Blacks under age 18 in 20 years) – Sept 2018
- Half of obese black teens achieved at least 30 ng of Vitamin D with 5,000 IU daily – June 2018
- Half of US high school students will have dark skins by 2025
- Many US kids have less than 40 ng of Vitamin D – 99 out of 100 blacks, 91 out of 100 whites – Jan 2017
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015
- Suicide rate among Native American teens increasing (yet no mention of low vitamin D) – May 2015
- Forearm fracture 3.5X more often in black children with low levels of vitamin D – Sept 2012
- Bariatric surgery less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 82 pcnt teens, 100 pcnt of black teens – June 2012
- 5 out of 6 UK dark skinned kids who were vitamin D deficient had no symptoms – May 2012
- Virtually all young Koreans had less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 2012
- 97 percent of Native American children have less than 30 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2011
- Dark Skinned youths and vitamin D in Southern Canada - Dissertation 2011
- Vitamin D insufficiency in UK youths – 37X more likely if dark skin – July 2011
- Dark skinned teens use media much more - June 2011
- Black obese children had low vitamin D and more fat under skin than whites – Mar 2011
- Red Alert – one in three pre-teens in Tehran had less than 5 ng of vitamin D – Feb 2011
- South African white children 48 ng vitamin D – black 37 ng – Feb 2011
- 2000 IU raised black teens vitamin D level to 34 ng and they lost fat – Oct 2010
- White children in Johannesburg do not need vitamin D supplements – Sept 2010
- Obesity in American-Indians and African-American teens
- Vitamin D and multiracial teens in US – March 2009
- Low vitamin D among black teens – March 2009
- Teens increasingly indoors - especially if dark skin
- Low vitamin D in teens: especially black or overweight – June 2010
- To increase vitamin D levels in children need 1000 or 2000 IU – June 2010
Pain and Dark Skin- - - - - - -
- Vitality recaptured with Vitamin D (stories of Swedish immigrant women in this case) – Dec 2019
- Pain following auto accident is worse if low vitamin D (for African Americans) – April 2015
- Dark skinned in Norway: 1000 IU vitamin D not enough to reduce pain – RCT Sept 2014
- Most immigrant women in Sweden had little vitamin D and lots of muscle pain – May 2013
- Sleep disorder and nonspecific pain implies low vitamin D, especially if dark skin – March 2013
- 150,000 IU vitamin D reduced pain in immigrants – RCT Dec 2012
- Blacks had lower vitamin D and more quantifiable pain than whites with knee osteoarthritis – Nov 2012
See also associations: Pregnancy, Genes, VDBP, VDR, Diabetes, Mortality, Intervention at Skin - Dark category page
Samples of - Skin - Dark in Vitamin D Life
- Preterm Birth 2.7X more likely if low vitamin D (dark skin in this case) - Nov 2023
- Vitamin D and poor health of South Asians living in Britain – Oct 2022
- Immune systems of overweight black women improved by monthly 60,000 IU Vitamin D – RCT Oct 2022
- Prostate cancer patients in Jamaica were 5X more likely to die of PC if low vitamin D - Sept 2022
- Cancer continues to be more deadly for Blacks than Whites (hint – low Vitamin D) – May 2022
- Darker Skin Health Disparities might be eliminated by Vitamin D (no surprise) - April 2022
- 2700 IU of vitamin D needed to get above 20 ng if dark-skinned and high latitude – Oct 2021
- Many healthy African Americans got above 33 ng with 4,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT March 2014
- Extra 4,000 IU daily raised the vitamin D levels of blacks to that of whites – July 2012
- Dark skin does not generate as much vitamin D from the same amount of UV – Nov 2011
- The darker the skin the less the vitamin D – July 2010
- Vitamin D insufficiency in UK youths – 37X more likely if dark skin – July 2011
- Blacks born in Africa and moved to US had 27X higher rate of TB than people born in the US 2000-2009
- Black members of Adventist church have improved health defy health recommends 30 minutes daily sun
- Dark skin people in Norway 2X more deficient and have 3X more headaches if low on vitamin D
- Somali did not have a word for autism before getting to Canada Vitamin D Council
- Videos: Black doctor 6 minutes CNN Dr. Gupta Dr. Sorenson 1 minute
- Race vs vitamin D level - Veith May 2011 has the following chart
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -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 WomenAfrican American Women
See also on the Web
- Little variation in vitamin D levels with skin color in Brazil – July 2014 - a different conclusion
- Health Disparities Experienced by Black or African Americans by CDC - US
- Office on Minority Health US
includes Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, HIV/AIDS, Immunization, Infant Mortality, and Stroke - Black Women's Health Imperative
- Healthy Black Men
- Black Doctor
- Women's Health for African-Americans US
- Black Health Zone
- LA Times June 2012 based on 4 year old data (2008)
A black baby boy will die 5.4 years earlier than white boy
A black baby girl will die 3.7 years earlier than white girl.
The life expectancy for black men 70.8 years, vs 76.2 years for white men
The life expectancy for black women 77.5 years, vs 80.3 years for white women. - When should medicine talk about race? Part 2: Seven guidelines Scientific American Aug 2012 - no mention of vitamin D
Summarizes a JAMA publication of 2003 - African American Community Mental Health 2012? 1 page, has the following
Across a recent 15-year span, suicide rates increased 233 % among African Americans aged 10-14 compared to 120 % among similar Caucasian Americans - The vitamin D RDA for African American adults: higher than that for white persons?
Am J Clin Nutr 2014 ajcn.082271; First published online January 22, 2014. Editorial by Cashman KD, no abstract available
Search Vitamin D Life for KD Cashman 84 items as of Jan 2014 - People with dark skins should not have to wear sunscreen all the time July 2014
She says that the Surgeon General and CDC recommend sunscreen ALL of the time for ALL Americans
Dark skins (less Vitamin D) = more Alzheimer's
- Good description of Discrimination based on skin color WikiPedia
skin bleaching was a $28 billion/year market in 2008 - White skin - Neanderthal inheritance Dr. Grimes & New Scientist April 2014
Association of Dark Skin with other categories
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