title: The role of vitamin D in protecting type 1 diabetes mellitus.
abstract: The relationship between autoimmune diabetes or type 1 diabetes mellitus and vitamin D has been reported in the literature. Many factors, environmental and genetic, have been known, as risk factors, to cause both type 1 diabetes and vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D treatment has improved or prevented type 1 diabetes mellitus in animals and humans. Vitamin D also has been known to protect from autoimmune diseases in animal models. Therefore, it would be interesting to review the role of vitamin D in type 1 diabetes mellitus.
authors.affiliation: Vietnamese American Medical Research Foundation, Westminster, California 92683, USA. Lng2687765@aol.com
authors.forename: Khanh vinh quoc
authors.initials: Kv
authors.lastname: Luong
authors.forename: Lan Thi Hoang
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Dung Ngoc Pham
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Nguyen
mesh_terms: D002117:Calcitriol / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D012307:Risk Factors; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D014807:Vitamin D; D002117:Calcitriol