Pages tagged with "Africa"
- Vitamin A deficiency in more than 30% of children in some Middle Eastern and African countries
- HIV, TB, Malaria more important than COVID to lower Africa
- Vitamin D deficiency - Ghana 43 percent
- Vitamin D genes vary with UVB in Europe, Africa, Asia
- Nigerian albinos have vitamin D levels of 96 ng
- African Vitamin D - 60% have less than 30 ng – Meta-analysis
- Preeclampsia 11X more likely if poor Vitamin D Binding Protein (South Africa)
- Pneumonia in Egyptian Children 3.6 X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor
- Africa
- Native women in East Africa have a good level of vitamin D (40 ng)
- Elderly Influenza deaths do not increase in winter in countries with high vitamin D levels
- Low back pain in 71 percent of youths in Egypt – associated with low vitamin D
- Vitamin D levels of East African tribes
- Countries often only consider their own vitamin D publications (example – South Africa)
- Dark-skinned hunter-gatherers may generate 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily
- Children in Uganda have low vitamin D, and lower still if severe malaria
- Migrants from Middle East are slightly more vitamin D deficient than those from Africa - meta-analysis
- Vitamin D and malaria – many studies
- Veiled Somali pregnant women in Sweden had low vitamin D and were weak
- Vitamin D deficiency is a major global public health problem – Maps