The role of vitamin D in protecting type 1 diabetes mellitus.
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.
Luong
Khanh vinh quoc
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Vietnamese American Medical Research Foundation, Westminster, California 92683, USA. Lng2687765@aol.com
Nguyen
Lan Thi Hoang
LT
Nguyen
Dung Ngoc Pham
DN
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*
D014807:Vitamin D; D002117:Calcitriol