Journal
JOURNAL OF STEROID BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 177, Issue -, Pages 270-277Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2017.07.010
Keywords
CVD risk factors; 250HD; Boys; Children; Adolescents; Triglycerides; Diastolic blood pressure; Sum of skinfolds; Total body fat; Total cholesterol
Funding
- Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) Grant Research Scheme
- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [206501]
- Meat and Livestock Australia
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As the prevalence of obesity appears to be increasing in Australia's youth the overall objective of this study was to examine serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (250HD) concentrations in a cohort of 8-year-olds (n = 249) followed up at age 15 (n = 162) and explore associations between 250HD with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in these populations. This was done in two stages: the first, two cross-sectional analyses (at ages 8 and 15); and the second, a prospective analysis from age 8 to 15. At both ages data on 250HD, blood lipids, and anthropometry were measured. Date of blood draw was used as a surrogate of sunlight exposure. Results were then analysed by multivariate linear analyses taking into account interaction and confounding. Mean 250HD concentrations decreased from 94 +/- 25 nmol/L to 63 +/- 16 nmol/L between age 8 and 15 years (p < 0.001). On cross-sectional analysis of 8 year olds, no CVD risk factor was found to be significantly associated with 250HD concentrations. On cross-sectional analysis of 15 year olds lower 250HD levels were significantly associated with higher body fat (adjusted beta = -0.24, p = 0.003). Prospectively, lower 250HD levels in 8-year-old boys, but not girls, were significantly associated with higher blood total cholesterol (adjusted beta = -0.28, p = 0.040) and triglyceride levels (adjusted beta = -0.33, p = 0.030) at age 15. The limitation of these data is the relatively small sample sizes, however these results suggest that low 250HD in childhood needs to be further investigated in larger cohort studies as there may be later cardiovascular consequences in adolescence.
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