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28 studies in both Pregnancy AND Dark Skin 13 studies in both Genes AND Dark Skin 8 studies in both Vitamin D Binding Protein and Dark Skin 7 studies in both Vitamin D Receptor and Dark Skin 13 studies in both Diabetes and Dark Skin 18 studies in both Cardiovacular and Dark Skin 12 studies in both Mortality and Dark Skin 16 studies in both Intervention and Dark Skin - 30+ Cancer and Dark Skin
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463 Dark Skin Pages - Dark Skin associated categories: Deficiency of Vitamin D 30, Pregnancy 27, Youth 25, Diabetes 24, Obesity 22, Virus 20, Infant-Child 20, Cardiovascular 18, Bone 16, Intervention 16, etc.
28 studies in both Pregnancy AND Dark Skin - Preterm Birth 2.7X more likely if low vitamin D (dark skin in this case) - Nov 2023
- Low vitamin D while pregnant – a health emergency (Indonesia in this case) – meta-analysis May 2023
- US maternal death rate increasing (low D not mentioned) - March 2023
- Vitamin D Status May Help Explain Maternal Race and Ethnic Factors in Primary Cesarean Section Delivery – April 2020
- Dark-skin plus low vitamin D in first trimester made preterm birth 2.9 X more likely – Dec 2019
- Low vitamin D in pregnancy linked to potentially harmful vaginal bacteria in black women - May 2019
- Pregnant while black increases chance of death – mothers 3X, infants 2X (low Vitamin D) – Feb 2019
- Depressed black pregnant women should take vitamin D – April 2018
- Bone loss during black pregnancies – 4000 IU of vitamin D was not enough – Dec 2017
- Preterm birth more likely if dark skinned and low vitamin D (not white-skinned) – April 2017
- Dark skin pregnancies 2.6 times more likely to have low vitamin D – March 2017
- Premature birth and infant mortality worse if dark skin (low vitamin D) - 2015
- Autism with intellectual disability 2.5 times more likely if low vitamin D during pregnancy – April 2016
- Ethnicity and low vitamin D levels during pregnancy – Jan 2016
- Metabolites of pregnant blacks vary with vitamin D level – Nov 2014
- Dark-skined mothers: preeclampsia 12X more likely if gestational hypertension – May 2014
- 78 percent of pregnant immigrants in Sweden had less than 10 ng low vitamin D – Nov 2013
- Depression in pregnant blacks strongly associated to vitamin D levels – Nov 2012
- Dr. Holick video on vitamin D - March 2013
- Dark skinned pregnant women far from equator were very vitamin D deficient – Sept 2012
- Pregnant blacks 50 pcnt more likely to be depressed if 3 ng less vitamin D – July 2012
- 80 percent of South Asian Women in UK had less than 10 ng of vitamin D in winter – April 2012
- Blacks have more pre-term births due to low nutrients such as vitamin D – Sept 2011
- Dark skin pregnancies and Vitamin D - many studies
- Vitamin D and fertility and birth problems with dark skin – Jan 2011
- Very low vitamin D for first pregnancies and those with dark skin – Jan 2011
- 97 percent of pregnant Blacks had less than 32 ng of vitamin D - 2010
- Pregnant women vitamin D insuficiency Black 97 Hispanic 81 White 67 percent – July 2010
13 studies in both Genes AND Dark Skin - Race changes the risk of various health problems, but many questions remain – Sept 2018
- Colon cancer more likely in blacks due to differences in Vitamin D genes (wonder if more Vitamin D would help) – May 2014
- Increased risk of multiple sclerosis risk in African Americans due to genes – June 2013
- Lupus in blacks associated with low vitamin D AND short telomeres – May 2013
- Genes in white blood cells of blacks associated with vitamin D deficiency – May 2013
- Vitamin D Receptor genes bb and BB and Osteoporosis, esp. for blacks – meta-analysis Nov 2012
- Genes may account for some of AA Breast Cancer – April 2012
- Genetic differences explain some of vitamin D variation in African-Americans Dec 2011
- Race vs vitamin D level - Veith May 2011
- Blacks may not need as much Vitamin D (for their bones)
- Hypothesis of Diet disease and pigment variation in humans – April 2010
- The more the African Ancestry, the lower the vitamin D level – July 2010
- Epigenetics and vitamin D – June 2010 clips from the web
8 studies in both Vitamin D Binding Protein and Dark Skin - T1 Diabetes 6.5 X more likely in South African Blacks if poor Vitamin D Binding Protein – July 2022
- Sweat types, folate, binding protein, lighter skin in females and Vitamin D – Jan 2020
- 10 reasons for poor response to Vitamin D (race, binding protein, etc.) – Nov 2017
- Prostate Cancer risk in black men increased 2X having poor Vitamin D Binding Protein – July 2017
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015
- Bioavailable Vitamin D is the same blacks and whites, but measured vit D is not – Oct 2014
- Blacks have lower vitamin D levels, but OK active vitamin D levels (VDBP) - Feb 2015
- Vitamin D-binding protein and vitamin D status of black Americans and white Americans – Nov 2013
7 studies in both Vitamin D Receptor and Dark Skin - Cancers and Vitamin D Receptors, including change with race – Feb 2021
- TB risk in Blacks increased 20 percent having poor Vitamin D Receptors – Sept 2017
- Raised skin scars (keloid) have fewer Vitamin D Receptors – Aug 2017
- Prostate cancer in black men is 1.6 times more likely if a poor Vitamin D Receptor – Feb 2017
- Aggressive Prostate Cancer in blacks with low vitamin D – 7X more likely if added Calcium – Jan 2017
- 2X less prostate cancer in A-A with low Calcium is due vitamin D receptor gene – July 2013
- Vitamin D Receptor genes bb and BB and Osteoporosis, esp. for blacks – meta-analysis Nov 2012
13 studies in both Diabetes and Dark Skin - Race changes the risk of various health problems, but many questions remain – Sept 2018
- Colon cancer more likely in blacks due to differences in Vitamin D genes (wonder if more Vitamin D would help) – May 2014
- Increased risk of multiple sclerosis risk in African Americans due to genes – June 2013
- Lupus in blacks associated with low vitamin D AND short telomeres – May 2013
- Genes in white blood cells of blacks associated with vitamin D deficiency – May 2013
- Vitamin D Receptor genes bb and BB and Osteoporosis, esp. for blacks – meta-analysis Nov 2012
- Genes may account for some of AA Breast Cancer – April 2012
- Genetic differences explain some of vitamin D variation in African-Americans Dec 2011
- Race vs vitamin D level - Veith May 2011
- Blacks may not need as much Vitamin D (for their bones)
- Hypothesis of Diet disease and pigment variation in humans – April 2010
- The more the African Ancestry, the lower the vitamin D level – July 2010
- Epigenetics and vitamin D – June 2010 clips from the web
18 studies in both Cardiovacular and Dark Skin - 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D
- After Heart Failure Blacks are 45 percent more likely to re-enter the hospital in a month – Oct 2020
- Hypertension not controlled by 26 ng of Vitamin D (50,000 IU bi-weekly A-A) – RCT Nov 2017
- Cardiovascular death reduction in dark skin migrants by just 1,000 IU of vitamin D – May 2015
- Types of vitamin D, African American teenage girls, and measures of heart fitness – Dec 2014
- Low vitamin D is a risk factor for vascular diseases in African Americans - Aug 2012
- Low vitamin D increases risk of cardiovascular disease in African Americans – 2011
- Low vitamin D associated with obesity-related diseases for ethnic minorities – Sept 2011
- Vitamin D accounts for 25 percent of the racial differences in blood pressure – Oct 2011
- Striking ethnic health disparity – blacks dying due to lack of vitamin D – Nov 2011
- Studies linked low vitamin D and dark skin to Obesity, Diabetes, and heart – June 2011
- 50000 IU vitamin D2 weekly helped blacks with heart problems – Feb 2011
- Not yet certain that vitamin D reduces cardiovascular and diabetes in blacks – Mar 2011
- Improved blood flow in blacks with just 2000 IU of vitamin D – Feb 2011
- Calcium with Vitamin D2 then D3 helps A-A after heart failure – Jan 2011
- Aortas of 16 year old blacks helped by 2000 IU of vitamin D – July 2010
- Race CVD and Vitamin D - Newsletter Mar 2010
- VitDCouncilMarch2010
SCD 2X more likely in Dark Skin than Wwhite Skin (males and females) - Nov 2018 no mention of Vitamin D
12 studies in both Mortality and Dark Skin - US maternal death rate increasing (low D not mentioned) - March 2023
- COVID-19 mortality for Blacks is 5X that for whites in 2 LA Hospitals - July 2021
- COVID-19 was the third-leading cause of death in the US, especially in those with dark skins - April 1, 2021
- Deaths after Cancer Surgery higher in blacks (probably low vitamin D) – Dec 2020
- Shift workers 2X more likely to get COVID-19 (low Vitamin D) - Dec 2020
- COVID-19 was killing dark-skinned doctors, then they got a Vitamin D recommendation
- COVID-19 more frequent and deadly for those with dark skins (high risk of low vitamin D)
- Differences in black and non-black mortality and vitamin D – Oct 2012
- More US deaths due to cancer than heart if dark skinned – Sept 2012
- Telomeres improved when obese blacks took 2000 IU of vitamin D daily – Oct 2011
- Do blacks have a 5 year life penalty due to low vitamin D
- CVD deaths related to low vitamin D, especially in people with dark skin – 2010
16 studies in both Intervention and Dark Skin - Immune systems of overweight black women improved by monthly 60,000 IU Vitamin D – RCT Oct 2022
- Vitamin D treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease: monthly better than daily – RCT May 2022
- Urgency Urinary Incontinence in senior black women decreased 40 percent by weekly 50,000 IU vitamin D – RCT Dec 2018
- Physical performance of black senior women not improved with 30 ng of Vitamin D – RCT Nov 2018
- Half of obese black teens achieved at least 30 ng of Vitamin D with 5,000 IU daily – June 2018
- Less response to 800 IU of Vitamin D by Africans than natives in Finland – RCT March 2018
- Hypertension not controlled by 26 ng of Vitamin D (50,000 IU bi-weekly A-A) – RCT Nov 2017
- Vitamin D needed to get children to just 20 ng in winter 800 IU white skin, 1100 IU dark (Sweden) – RCT June 2017
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015
- Monthly vitamin D (120,000 IU) got most overweight African Americans about 35 ng – RCT July 2015
- Cardiovascular death reduction in dark skin migrants by just 1,000 IU of vitamin D – May 2015
- Sickle cell Vitamin D deficiency corrected with 160 K IU loading dose – July 2014
- Many healthy African Americans got above 33 ng with 4,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT March 2014
- Inflammation in African Americans not reduced with 3 months of 4000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Dec 2013
- 150,000 IU vitamin D reduced pain in immigrants – RCT Dec 2012
- 14000 IU vitamin D (50000 twice a week) often stops Sickle Cell pain
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- Dark skinned people: higher risk of Prostate, Colon, and Breast Cancers (yet again) - April 2024
- Predictors of low vitamin D: race, age, and BMI (confirmed now by Machine Learning) – Feb 2024
- Stroke 3 times more likely if dark skin woman has Hypertension before age 35 - Feb 2024
- Sepsis mortality greater in Black than White children (low vitamin D) - Dec 2023
- Preterm Birth 2.7X more likely if low vitamin D (dark skin in this case) - Nov 2023
- Menopause is earlier in black women (low vitamin D) - Aug 2023
- Low vitamin D while pregnant – a health emergency (Indonesia in this case) – meta-analysis May 2023
- 1 in 5 Canadians have inadequate Vitamin D (less than 16 ng), far more if dark skinned – Canada April 2023
- US maternal death rate increasing (low D not mentioned) - March 2023
- Vitamin D and poor health of South Asians living in Britain – Oct 2022
- US Vitamin D levels increased 2001-2018 – 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
- T1 Diabetes 6.5 X more likely in South African Blacks if poor Vitamin D Binding Protein – July 2022
- Newly diagnosed Children with Cancer have low vitamin D, especially if black - May 2022
- Vitamin D treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease: monthly better than daily – RCT May 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
- Lower Magnesium, 6 percent more COVID - Feb 2022
- Cancer of breast is highest in dark-skinned women (low Vitamin D: dark skin and obese) - Feb 2022
- Less cognitive decline in older blacks getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily for years (VITAL, etc. post analysis) – RCT Dec 2021
- 2700 IU of vitamin D needed to get above 20 ng if dark-skinned and high latitude – Oct 2021
- Cancers and Vitamin D Receptors, including change with race – Feb 2021
- Sarcopenia with obesity is more likely if dark skin, diabetes, OR COPD (all associated with low vitamin D)
- “Black Patients Matter”: US Blacks 2X more likely to die of COVID-19 than whites – Sept 29, 2021
- Skin scars (Keloids) more likely if low vitamin D, poor Vitamin D receptor, or dark skin – Aug 2021
- Virus and Dark Skin in Vitamin D Life
- US coalition of Black and Latino churches hope to reduce the 3X COVID-19 disparity - Aug 2021
- COVID-19 mortality for Blacks is 5X that for whites in 2 LA Hospitals - July 2021
- Low vitamin D associated with increased COVID-19 risk (in this case black women 1.7X) – July 2021
- Evolution of human skin color – Jablonski April 2021
- COVID-19 was the third-leading cause of death in the US, especially in those with dark skins - April 1, 2021
- Prefer 40 – 60 ng of Vitamin D to minimize COVID-19 – March 17, 2021
- 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D
- Those with recent cancer diagnosis had 7X increased risk of COVID-19 (more if A-A )- Dec 2020
- African American Health Disparities are associated with low Vitamin D - Grant Feb 2021
- Healthcare workers at higher risk of COVID-19 if low vitamin D, especially if dark skin – Dec 2020
- Deaths after Cancer Surgery higher in blacks (probably low vitamin D) – Dec 2020
- Shift workers 2X more likely to get COVID-19 (low Vitamin D) - Dec 2020
- COVID-19 was killing dark-skinned doctors, then they got a Vitamin D recommendation
- COVID-19 antibodies 2.6 X more likely if had symptoms and low vitamin D (UK hospital staff)– Oct 5 2020
- After Heart Failure Blacks are 45 percent more likely to re-enter the hospital in a month – Oct 2020
- Vitamin D could knock out COVID-19 in 3 months – Dr. Matthews interview Oct 2020
- Rate of COVID-19 test positive is 40 pcnt lower if high vitamin D (192,000 people) - Holick Sept 2020
- COVID-19 increased 3.5 X if Ultra-Orthodox (cloth) Sept, 2020
- Multiple Sclerosis 42X more likely if light brown skin and smoke (both associated with low vitamin D) – July 2020
- People from the Indian continent living in the UK continue to have extremely low levels of Vitamin D – July 2020
- COVID-19 is harder for those with dark skins - perhaps due to low vitamin D – April 24, 2020
- Vitamin D Status May Help Explain Maternal Race and Ethnic Factors in Primary Cesarean Section Delivery – April 2020
- COVID-19 more frequent and deadly for those with dark skins (high risk of low vitamin D)
- Indications of increase COVID-19 problems if dark skin in the UK- April 3 2020
- Sweat types, folate, binding protein, lighter skin in females and Vitamin D – Jan 2020
- Low Vitamin D in Nordic countries – supplementation, fortification, only 20 ng – Jan 2020
- Dark-skin plus low vitamin D in first trimester made preterm birth 2.9 X more likely – Dec 2019
- Nigerian albinos have vitamin D levels of 96 ng – Oct 2019
- Vitality recaptured with Vitamin D (stories of Swedish immigrant women in this case) – Dec 2019
- Children in India – 1 in 7 extremely low Vitamin D, 1 in 10 prediabetic – Sept 2019
- Every single Taekwondo (indoor) Korean teen had low Vitamin D – Sept 2019
- Need 1 hour of noon sun to get Hijab women to 20 ng of Vitamin D (cloth) – June 2019
- Increased health problems in blacks is similar to that of low vitamin D whites (John Singleton Stroke)
- Low vitamin D in pregnancy linked to potentially harmful vaginal bacteria in black women - May 2019
- Vitamin D level of outdoor workers in India was only 18 ng– May 2019
- Pregnant while black increases chance of death – mothers 3X, infants 2X (low Vitamin D) – Feb 2019
- Sleep fragmentation 2X worse in UK senior women having dark skins – Jan 2019
- African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s (Vitamin D)
- Vitamin D, trauma, and blacks - Dr. Matthews interview with transcript - Jan 2019
- Response to UV varies more with pigment genes and age than skin color – Jan 2019
- Swedish TV Warns 'Dark-Skinned' People, Muslims of Vitamin D Deficiency - Dec 2018
- Urgency Urinary Incontinence in senior black women decreased 40 percent by weekly 50,000 IU vitamin D – RCT Dec 2018
- 10 health problems associated with Dark Skin (low vitamin D)
- 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
- Physical performance of black senior women not improved with 30 ng of Vitamin D – RCT Nov 2018
- Low birth weight far more likely if African-American (low vitamin D) – 1997, Aug 2018
- Race changes the risk of various health problems, but many questions remain – Sept 2018
- Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (Wash D.C) invited Dr. Matthews to speak to them on Vitamin D – Sept 2018
- Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder increasing (2.7X in US Blacks under age 18 in 20 years) – Sept 2018
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- International Conference of Vitamin D Fortification of Food (India) – Sept 2018
- Vitamin D needed for 12 ng in winter in Finland – Whites 320 IU, Blacks 720 IU – July 2018
- Half of obese black teens achieved at least 30 ng of Vitamin D with 5,000 IU daily – June 2018
- IQ levels around the world are falling (perhaps lower Vitamin D, Iodine, or Omega-3)
- Less response to 800 IU of Vitamin D by Africans than natives in Finland – RCT March 2018
- Vitamin D should be an almost universal feature of the care of young adults with sickle cell disease – May 2018
- Vitamin D paradox – Blacks need Vit D for health, but not as much D for strong bones – May 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
- Half of US high school students will have dark skins by 2025
- Blacks are more obese, have lower Vitamin D, and have more Cancer etc. than whites – Feb 2018
- Depressed black pregnant women should take vitamin D – April 2018
- Racial differences in health problems (premature births) disappeared when vitamin D levels were the same – April 2018
- Blacks die more often than whites of many diseases (they have less vitamin D) – 2012
- Senior Blacks with low vitamin D were 2X more likely to experience cognitive decline 5 years later – March 2018
- Rate of vitamin D supplementation by Blacks increases 16X after getting Multiple Sclerosis – Feb 2018
- Sickle Cell clinical trial will inject 300,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT due 2020
- 10 reasons for poor response to Vitamin D (race, binding protein, etc.) – Nov 2017
- Bone loss during black pregnancies – 4000 IU of vitamin D was not enough – Dec 2017
- Crohn's disease in black children is worse in 6 ways – Dec 2015
- Prostate Cancer risk in black men increased 2X having poor Vitamin D Binding Protein – July 2017
- Hypertension not controlled by 26 ng of Vitamin D (50,000 IU bi-weekly A-A) – RCT Nov 2017
- Breast cancer in blacks – 5X increased risk of triple negative if low vitamin D – Oct 2017
- TB risk in Blacks increased 20 percent having poor Vitamin D Receptors – Sept 2017
- Genes for light skin – 29,000 and 900,000 years old – Oct 2017
- ICU - lots of vitamin D in first week helped the dark skinned - April 2017
- Hypertension is more likely in those with darker skins (low vitamin D) 2017
- STD rates are highest if dark skin, and US rates are increasing – Sept 2017
- Diabetic blacks – 80 percent had low vitamin D (less than 20 ng) a decade before – Sept 2017
- Black infants far less likely to be breast-fed (wonder – culture or low Vitamin D) – Aug 2017
- Raised skin scars (keloid) have fewer Vitamin D Receptors – Aug 2017
- Malay women 14 X more likely to be Vitamin D deficient than Chinese in Malay – July 2017
- Vitamin D needed to get children to just 20 ng in winter 800 IU white skin, 1100 IU dark (Sweden) – RCT June 2017
- Rickets in Norway – 93 percent had darker skin (lower vitamin D) – May 2017
- Preterm birth more likely if dark skinned and low vitamin D (not white-skinned) – April 2017
- Bibliography of Black-White health disparities linked to vitamin D - Dr. Grant March 2017
- Dark skin pregnancies 2.6 times more likely to have low vitamin D – March 2017
- Prostate cancer in black men is 1.6 times more likely if a poor Vitamin D Receptor – Feb 2017
- The Evolution of Diverse Vitamin D Requirements – Masterjohn video Aug 2016
- Many US kids have less than 40 ng of Vitamin D – 99 out of 100 blacks, 91 out of 100 whites – Jan 2017
- Aggressive Prostate Cancer in blacks with low vitamin D – 7X more likely if added Calcium – Jan 2017
- The UVB–vitamin D3–pigment hypothesis is alive and well (behind short paywall) - Aug 2016
- Blacks with strokes having low Vitamin D were 3 times more likely to have cognitive impairment – Nov 2016
- Low vitamin D 5 times more likely in poor and ethnic neighborhoods (than the best in Dublin) – Nov 2016
- Vitamin D levels of East African tribes
- Higher rate of prostate cancer in AA may decrease if take vitamin D – July 2016
- Premature birth and infant mortality worse if dark skin (low vitamin D) - 2015
- Small for gestational age with low vitamin D – 3.6X higher for blacks than whites – April 2016
- Autism with intellectual disability 2.5 times more likely if low vitamin D during pregnancy – April 2016
- Dark-skinned hunter-gatherers may generate 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily - June 2016
- Increase in Vitamin D deficiency with weight and skin darkness – chart – March 2016
- Ethnicity and low vitamin D levels during pregnancy – Jan 2016
- 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT Dec 2015
- Diabetes is associated with low vitamin D in various races, but not blacks – Sept 2015
- African-Americans with poor sleep have lower levels of vitamin D – Aug 2015
- Bioavailable Vitamin D is the same blacks and whites, but measured vit D is not – Oct 2014
- Migrants from Middle East are slightly more vitamin D deficient than those from Africa - meta-analysis Aug 2015
- Prostate Cancer incidence and death 2X more often among black men (vitamin D not mentioned) - July 2015
- Monthly vitamin D (120,000 IU) got most overweight African Americans about 35 ng – RCT July 2015
- Diabetes (Type 1) 14X more likely in dark skin children with low levels of vitamin D – May 2015
- Kidney Cancer differences with skin color probably due to vitamin D differences – May 2015
- African immigrants: half are vitamin D deficient (based on Caucasian measures) – May 2015
- The darker the child’s skin, the lower the vitamin D level (Spain) – March 2014
- Sickle Cell children need more than 7,000 IU of vitamin D daily – May 2015
- Cardiovascular death reduction in dark skin migrants by just 1,000 IU of vitamin D – May 2015
- Off topic – Skin luminance and hue – June 2015
- Suicide rate among Native American teens increasing (yet no mention of low vitamin D) – May 2015
- Obese diabetics with dark skins not benefit from 6,000 IU of vitamin D daily (no surprise) – RCT March 2015
- Diabetic glycation control is inversely related to Vitamin D in India – Feb 2015
- Inflammation Anemia in Blacks 8X more likely if less than 20 ng of vitamin D – April 2015
- NCAA athletes – one third had low levels of vitamin D, 19X more likely if black race – March 2015
- Pain following auto accident is worse if low vitamin D (for African Americans) – April 2015
- Blacks have 4X more Kidney disease than whites – probably due to low vitamin D – March 2015
- Overview Sickle Cell and Vitamin D
- Avoiding the sun (and vitamin D) – most Chinese medical students do not want darker skins – Feb 2015
- Blacks have lower vitamin D levels, but OK active vitamin D levels (VDBP) - Feb 2015
- Darker skin smokers have lower levels of vitamin D – Feb 2015
- Type I diabetes in dark skin children associated with low vitamin D if far from equator – Jan 2015
- Types of vitamin D, African American teenage girls, and measures of heart fitness – Dec 2014
- African Americans need vitamin D intervention as well as education – Dec 2014
- The darker the skin, the lower the level of vitamin D – even in tropical Malaysia – Nov 2014
- Tanning potential predicts risk of Prostate Cancer in Blacks – Nov 2014
- Dark skinned children were vitamin D deficient in Italy (not infants) – Nov 2014
- Metabolites of pregnant blacks vary with vitamin D level – Nov 2014
- Dark skinned in Norway: 1000 IU vitamin D not enough to reduce pain – RCT Sept 2014
- HIV – lower vitamin D if Black, higher if PI monotherapy – Oct 2013
- Off topic: CDC deleted a 3X increase in black male autism due to vaccination – whistle blowing Aug 2014
- Little variation in vitamin D levels with skin color in Brazil – July 2014
- Darker skins generated much less vitamin D from a single UVB dose – Nov 2013
- Vitamin D levels lower during darker skin pregnancy, but bone density is OK – Dec 2013
- Cancer patients at high risk of vitamin D deficiency were not tested as often (paradoxically) – July 2014
- PSA levels in blacks were not changed by 3 months of 4,000 IU of vitamin D (not enough) – June 2014
- Vitamin D levels of blacks are lower and more skewed (non gausian) the further from equator – July 2014
- Sickle cell Vitamin D deficiency corrected with 160 K IU loading dose – July 2014
- Vitamin D-binding protein and vitamin D status of black Americans and white Americans – Nov 2013
- Dark-skined mothers: preeclampsia 12X more likely if gestational hypertension – May 2014
- Colon cancer more likely in blacks due to differences in Vitamin D genes (wonder if more Vitamin D would help) – May 2014
- Bone density does not decrease with lower vitamin D levels in blacks as it does in whites – April 2014
- Darned ancestors: Light skin is more expensive than dark skin
- Infertility rate is 2X higher for blacks than whites (no mention of vitamin D, nor the man) – April 2014
- Australia – 25 percent of whites have less than 20 ng of vitamin D – April 2014
- Race, immunity, and levels of vitamin D - April 2014
- Black prisoners have lower vitamin D than whites in maximum security – March 2014
- Hypothesis - Dark skin evolved to avoid skin cancer - Feb 2014
- Dark skinned NCAA basketball players were 15X more likely to have low vitamin D – Feb 2014
- Lung capacity (Vo2max) reduced in senior African American women with low vitamin D – Feb 2014
- Why India's vitamin D deficiency is grim - 40 pages Feb 2014
- Many healthy African Americans got above 33 ng with 4,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT March 2014
- Inflammation in African Americans not reduced with 3 months of 4000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Dec 2013
- 78 percent of pregnant immigrants in Sweden had less than 10 ng low vitamin D – Nov 2013
- Skin cancer risk and vitamin D from sun both decrease with darker skin – March 2013
- Depression in pregnant blacks strongly associated to vitamin D levels – Nov 2012
- Another indiction that lower level of vitamin D are OK in blacks – Anemia Oct 2013
- Vitamin D deficiency diseases in dark skinned people living far from equator – Meta-analysis Oct 2013
- Off topic: Low-income black churches interest in early disease detection
- 2X less prostate cancer in A-A with low Calcium is due vitamin D receptor gene – July 2013
- Tuberculosis, ethnic differences, and vitamin D – July 2013
- Breastfed Infants in Iowa got very little vitamin D, especially if winter or dark skin – July 2013
- Ricket was known to be associated with dark skin and breast feeding a century ago - 2005
- Increased risk of multiple sclerosis risk in African Americans due to genes – June 2013
- Chart of Vitamin D levels vs race - April 2013
- Black infants had far lower vitamin D levels which did not vary with season – Jan 2013
- Lupus in blacks associated with low vitamin D AND short telomeres – May 2013
- Most immigrant women in Sweden had little vitamin D and lots of muscle pain – May 2013
- Dark Skinned adults need more than 45 minutes of UK summer sun daily – June 2013
- Multiple Sclerosis: high incidence in black women than whites (perhaps vitamin D) – May 2013
- Genes in white blood cells of blacks associated with vitamin D deficiency – May 2013
- Sleep disorder and nonspecific pain implies low vitamin D, especially if dark skin – March 2013
- Lower vitamin D if born outside of Canada or lower education - April 2013
- Black women and vitamin D: Nigeria 26 ng, Chicago 12 ng – April 2013
- Dr. Holick video on vitamin D - March 2013
- Low Vitamin D with dark skin, even if live closer to equator and higher altitude – Feb 2013
- Immigrants and refugees had lower vitamin D levels – Jan 2013
- US Minorities have poor health – how much is due to little sun – Feb 2013
- Similar response to Vitamin D supplements by senior white and black women – Feb 2013
- African-Americans at high risk of obesity and diabetes - 2011
- Low vitamin D is a risk factor for vascular diseases in African Americans - Aug 2012
- Low vitamin D increases risk of cardiovascular disease in African Americans – 2011
- Vitamin D different relationship between whites and blacks for bone and plaque – June 2012
- First and 2nd generation migrants 2X more likely to have psychotic disorders – Jan 2013
- Sickle cell and low vitamin D – 3 presentations Dec 2012
- Type 1 Diabetes associated with low vitamin D, especially in dark skinned youths – Dec 2012
- 150,000 IU vitamin D reduced pain in immigrants – RCT Dec 2012
- Autism associated with low UVB – Oct 2012
- Vitamin D Receptor genes bb and BB and Osteoporosis, esp. for blacks – meta-analysis Nov 2012
- Hyperglycemia in black veterans is associated with low vitamin D – Nov 2012
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- Blacks had lower vitamin D and more quantifiable pain than whites with knee osteoarthritis – Nov 2012
- IBD surgery 5X more likely for non-caucasians with low vitamin D – Oct 2012
- Differences in black and non-black mortality and vitamin D – Oct 2012
- Hypothesis: Vitamin D is related to breast cancer racial disparities in the US - Sept 2012
- More US deaths due to cancer than heart if dark skinned – Sept 2012
- African-Americans need only 20 ng of vitamin, not 30 ng, based on iPTH – Sept 2012
- Dark skinned pregnant women far from equator were very vitamin D deficient – Sept 2012
- Forearm fracture 3.5X more often in black children with low levels of vitamin D – Sept 2012
- Off topic: Only 30 percent of African American children know how to swim – Aug 2012
- 83 percent of children had less than 20 ng of vitamin D – 15 ng avg for hispanic – Aug 2012
- Pregnant blacks 50 pcnt more likely to be depressed if 3 ng less vitamin D – July 2012
- 98 percent of black women had less than 20 ng of vitamin D – July 2012
- Blacks with HIV were 3.5X more likely to be vitamin D deficient than whites – May 2012
- Fair skin has lower vitamin D levels than dark skin – contrary to other studies – 2009
- Half of the US will be people of color – wonder how many will be vitamin D deficient
- Survey finds that Non-Caucasians do not feel that people need sun exposure – July 2012
- Extra 4,000 IU daily raised the vitamin D levels of blacks to that of whites – July 2012
- Bariatric surgery less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 82 pcnt teens, 100 pcnt of black teens – June 2012
- Hypothesis: Blacks get more cancer than whites due to lower levels of vitamin D – June 2012
- Head and Neck Cancer associated with low vitamin D, especially with blacks - April 2012
- 5 out of 6 UK dark skinned kids who were vitamin D deficient had no symptoms – May 2012
- Seniors in North Indian: half have sore bones, 98 pcnt have less than 30 ng vitamin D – Nov 2011
- Diabetics with darker skin were more vitamin D deficient – May 2012
- Hispanics with MS had lower levels of vitamin D which did not vary seasonally – May 2012
- Psychosis in dark skinned people 3.5 X higher if low level of vitamin D – May 2012
- 79 percent of TB in East London less 20 ng vitamin D - April 2012
- Vitamin D and Inuit (dark skin) – April 2012
- 80 percent of South Asian Women in UK had less than 10 ng of vitamin D in winter – April 2012
- Black Sudanese children 350X more likely to have rickets than other Australians – April 2012
- Sickle Cell Anemia: 64 percent had less than 10ng of vitamin D – April 2012
- Abu Dhabi 2012 - Haq
- Genes may account for some of AA Breast Cancer – April 2012
- CDC vitamin D statistics for women: including blacks and high BMI – March 2012
- CDC Nutrients: 30 percent dark skinned have less than 20 ng of vitamin D - March 2012
- Crohn’s Disease strongly associated with low vitamin D in South Asians – March 2012
- Another urban area in a sunny climate is vitamin D deficient – Bangkok Nov 2011
- Skin color and vitamin D – Jablonski – Spring 2012
- Virtually all young Koreans had less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 2012
- More gut problems with a dark skinned people – March 2012
- Perhaps optimal bioavailable vitamin D level is the same in blacks and whites – March 2012
- Mayo clinic providing free vitamin D tests for blacks in Florida – Feb 2012
- Low vitamin D associated with obesity-related diseases for ethnic minorities – Sept 2011
- Human skin pigmentation, migration and disease susceptibility – Mar 2012
- Vitamin D Helps Atlanta High School Athletes - Feb 2012
- Dark skin does not generate as much vitamin D from the same amount of UV – Nov 2011
- Hypothesis: Vitamin D will decrease CVD and diabetes in African Americans – May 2011
- Rickets in 30 percent of infants in India who had low vitamin D – March 2011
- Vitamin D accounts for 25 percent of the racial differences in blood pressure – Oct 2011
- First vitamin D book for blacks – 2011
- Traditionally living Africans have 46 ng vitamin D levels – Jan 2012
- Twice as many fatal strokes among whites who were low on vitamin D – Jan 2012
- Even young Caucasians do not get enough time in the sun – Oct 2011
- 73 percent of Australians had too little vitamin D – Dec 2011
- Africans in Europe might only need 19 ng of vitamin D – estimated from PTH July 2011
- VA found less testing for vitamin D resulted in increased health costs – Jan 2012
- 28 pct of dark skinned people in UK not heard of vitamin D and 54 pct not know symptoms – Jan 2012
- Reasons for low response to vitamin D
- 20 ng of vitamin D is enough for African American PTH – Dec 2011
- Genetic differences explain some of vitamin D variation in African-Americans Dec 2011
- Immigrant vitamin D deficiency in Europe – May 2011
- Striking ethnic health disparity – blacks dying due to lack of vitamin D – Nov 2011
- Blacks living in urban area vs rural have less vitamin D if older than 50 – Oct 2011
- Blacks may need less vitamin D than whites – PTH Aug 2010
- Diseases of obesity strongly associated with vitamin D deficiency in ethnic minorities – Sept 2011
- Second generation dark skinned immigrants live shorter lives
- 97 percent of Native American children have less than 30 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2011
- Telomeres improved when obese blacks took 2000 IU of vitamin D daily – Oct 2011
- Black seniors near equator: increased vitamin D decreases bone density – Sept 2011
- Black veterans have worse health and low vitamin D, yet are not tested as much – June 2011
- Dark Skinned youths and vitamin D in Southern Canada - Dissertation 2011
- Review of Vitamin D Deficiencies in developing countries - Oct 2011
- 14000 IU vitamin D (50000 twice a week) often stops Sickle Cell pain
- Blacks have low vitamin D and have 50 percent more kidney failure – Sept 2011
- Graphs of diseases vs vitamin D levels - and D3 vs D2- April 2011
- Breast cancer worse for black women – Sept 2011
- Blacks have more pre-term births due to low nutrients such as vitamin D – Sept 2011
- 88 percent of African immigrants to Melborne had less than 20 ng of vitamin D
- Disadvantaged get less sun and have poor health in the North– Aug 2011
- Black women lacking Calcium and Vitamin D weighed more – Aug 2011
- Vitamin D insufficiency in UK youths – 37X more likely if dark skin – July 2011
- Diabetic neuropathy and low vitamin D, especially in blacks - July 2011
- Black members of Adventist church defy health disparities – June 2011
- Vitamin D Council vs FDA concerning vitamin D deficiency in blacks and others - June 2011
- Studies linked low vitamin D and dark skin to Obesity, Diabetes, and heart – June 2011
- Dark skinned teens use media much more - June 2011
- Blacks not taking mulitvitamins were 5X more likely to be vitamin D insufficient– June 2011
- Race vs vitamin D level - Veith May 2011
- Hypothesis - 40 ng is enough vitamin D if high latitude or dark skin
- Canadian Vitamin D deficiency – May 2011
- Skin pigmentation predicted bone mineral content in Hawaii – April 2011
- Dark skinned obese not helped much by weekly 50000 IU dose of vitamin D – May 2011
- Dark skinned Caribbean seniors have enough vitamin D – April 2011
- Dark skin pregnancies and Vitamin D - many studies
- 30 percent of US had less than 20 ng of vitamin D - CDC March 2011
- 42 percent of US adults less than 20 ng of vitamin D and 82 percent of blacks – Jan 2011
- 50000 IU vitamin D2 weekly helped blacks with heart problems – Feb 2011
- Vitamin D levels in Israel vs skin type and age – Mar 2011
- Not yet certain that vitamin D reduces cardiovascular and diabetes in blacks – Mar 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
- Vitamin D and fertility and birth problems with dark skin – Jan 2011
- Improved blood flow in blacks with just 2000 IU of vitamin D – Feb 2011
- South African white children 48 ng vitamin D – black 37 ng – Feb 2011
- Vitamin D bed used 4 minutes daily by dark skin members of UK sports team – Jan 2011
- Anemia associated with lower than 20 ng vitamin D among elderly – Jan 2011
- Calcium with Vitamin D2 then D3 helps A-A after heart failure – Jan 2011
- Autism more frequent from mothers who are dark skinned or veiled – Jan 2011
- Very low vitamin D for first pregnancies and those with dark skin – Jan 2011
- Blacks are still not getting enough vitamin D – Dec 2010
- Many possible associations of increased asthma in black children – Nov 2010
- 2000 IU raised black teens vitamin D level to 34 ng and they lost fat – Oct 2010
- End stage kidney disease almost 3X more likely for blacks – 2009
- Blacks may not need as much Vitamin D (for their bones)
- Lack of vitamin D closely associated with black health disparities – Nov 2010
- Blacks similar to elderly in vitamin D status – Dec 2008
- Breast cancer more deadly for blacks than whites
- Low vitamin D in blacks increases colorectal cancer deaths 40 percent – Cancer Oct 2010
- Do blacks have a 5 year life penalty due to low vitamin D
- 80 year old blacks 3X more likely to be low on vitamin D than whites – Dec 2008
- Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D
- Skin color and clothing but not sunscreens reduce vitamin D – Oct 2010
- Low vitamin D before orthopedic surgery – dark skin 5X more likely – Oct 2010
- Blacks and whites may need different levels of vitamin D etc – Sept 2010
- 86 percent with TB did not have 30 ng of vitamin D and many were black – Sept 2010
- 97 percent of pregnant Blacks had less than 32 ng of vitamin D - 2010
- Vitamin D blood levels vary with estimated amount of African Ancestry – Sept 2010
- White children in Johannesburg do not need vitamin D supplements – Sept 2010
- Hypothesis of Diet disease and pigment variation in humans – April 2010
- 800 IU Vitamin D better than sunlight for non-western immigrants – Aug 2010
- Elderly black women had low vitamin D which did not increase in the summer – Jan 2010
- Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among asthmatic African-Americans – Aug 2010
- Obesity in American-Indians and African-American teens
- African-American medical risks
- Hypothesis that lack of vitamin D increases blood pressure in blacks – July 2010
- Skin color may not be entirely related to amount of sunshine
- African-Americans and Multiple Sclerosis
- Most people have pale palms which do not tan
- Pregnant women vitamin D insuficiency Black 97 Hispanic 81 White 67 percent – July 2010
- Aortas of 16 year old blacks helped by 2000 IU of vitamin D – July 2010
- The more the African Ancestry, the lower the vitamin D level – July 2010
- Dark skin people in Norway 2X more deficient and have 3X more headaches if low on vitamin D – July 2010
- Will doses of vitamin D up to 6000 IU reduce osteoporosis in black women - July 2010
- Diabetes Statistics including more diabetes with darker skin – 2007
- Vitamin D and multiracial teens in US – March 2009
- Low vitamin D among black teens – March 2009
- Virtually all black dialysis patients with low albumin are vitamin D deficient in the winter – Mar 2010
- Vitamin D3 in obese and non obese African American children – 2008
- Teens increasingly indoors - especially if dark skin
- Majority of blacks on dialysis were vitamin D deficient - March 2010
- Large increase in dark skin children with vitamin D deficiency in Glasgow – June 2010
- Barefoot on mega doses of vitamin D and his book on Cancer
- 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
- Women with lighter skin had on average 4 ng less vitamin D in their blood – 2009
- Insulin resistance correlated with low vitamin D levels in Arab Americans – June 2010
- Epigenetics and vitamin D – June 2010 clips from the web
- CVD deaths related to low vitamin D, especially in people with dark skin – 2010
- A-A need 2100 to 3100 IU every day all year – March 2010
- 2X more people have less than 30 ng of vitamin D in a decade – Feb 2010
- Dark Skinned babies probably need vitamin D to prevent nutritional rickets - 2001
- Insulin sensitivity associated with Vit D in A-A April 2010
- Even in Sunny Areas, Vitamin D Intake Often Too Low - May 2010
- Vitamin D levels dropped after training for white, but not black females April 2010
- Skin color resulted in lower vitamin D levels in Florida - April 2010
- Vitamin D deficiency and insulin insensitivity in African Americans - 2010
- Low vitamin D in minority children
- Arthritis 2X as severe in African-Americans - April 2010
- Race CVD and Vitamin D - Newsletter Mar 2010
- Eskimos evolved to get and limit Vitamin D from food
- VitDCouncilMarch2010
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