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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
Volume 111, Issue 4, Pages 779-786Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqaa031
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serum lipids; blood pressure; latitude; skin color; vitamin D supplement
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- Umea University
- Vasterbotten County Council
- Jerring Foundation
- Per Hakansson Foundation
- Fanny Ekdahl Foundation
- Samariten Foundation
- Oskar Foundation
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Background: Observational studies have linked low vitamin D status to unfavorable cardiometabolic risk markers, but double-blinded vitamin D intervention studies in children are scarce. Objectives: The aim was to evaluate the effect of different doses of a vitamin D supplement on cardiometabolic risk markers in young healthy Swedish children with fair and dark skin. Methods: Cardiometabolic risk markers were analyzed as secondary outcomes of a double-blind, randomized, milk-based vitamin D intervention trial conducted during late fall and winter in 2 areas of Sweden (latitude 63 degrees N and 55 degrees N, respectively) in both fair- and dark-skinned 5- to 7-y-old children. During the 3-mo intervention, 206 children were randomly assigned to a daily milk-based vitamin D-3 supplement of either 10 or 25 mu g or placebo (2 mu g; only at 55 degrees N). Anthropometric measures, blood pressure, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, apoA-I, apoB, and C-reactive protein (CRP) were analyzed and non-HDL cholesterol calculated at baseline and after the intervention. Results: At baseline, serum 25(OH)D was negatively associated with systolic and diastolic blood pressure (beta = -0.194; 95% CI: -0.153, -0.013; and beta = -0.187; 95% CI: -0.150, -0.011, respectively). At follow-up, there was no statistically significant difference in any of the cardiometabolic markers between groups. Conclusions: We could not confirm any effect of vitamin D supplementation on serum lipids, blood pressure, or CRP in healthy 5- to 7-y-old children.
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