title: CORRELATION OF SERUM VITAMIN D LEVEL WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS IN CHILDREN: A META-ANALYSIS.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to assess the relationship between serums vitamin D level and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children.
  
  
  METHODS
  the following electronic databases were searched until Sep 2014 to identify relevant studies that assessed the relationship between serum vitamin D with T1DM: PubMed\EMbase\Medline\Central Register of Controlled Trials\CBM\Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)\wangfang; The NOS scale was used to evaluate the quality of studies, and the statistical tests were performed by Stata 11.0 software.
  
  
  RESULTS
  a total of 10 studies were included in this study. Our results showed that serum vitamin D was significantly lower in children with T1DM than in healthy controls (MD = -0.60, P < 0.05). No evidence support publication bias in present study.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the meta-analysis suggests that serum vitamin D level is associated with T1DM in children.
authors.affiliation: Nanjing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University (Nanjing), Jiangsu.. 1983helianping@163.com.
authors.forename: Changwei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: School of Medical Imaging and laboratory, Wannan Medical College (Wuhu), Anhui.. lumi0503@163.com.
authors.forename: Mi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Nanjing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University (Nanjing), Jiangsu.. 597888447@qq.com.
authors.forename: Xiaona
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: Nanjing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University (Nanjing), Jiangsu.. 597888447@qq.com.
authors.forename: Jingwen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Nanjing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University (Nanjing), Jiangsu.. 597888447@qq.com.
authors.forename: Yuanyuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College (Wuhu), Anhui. China.. 1983helianping@163.com.
authors.forename: Lianping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Nanjing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University (Nanjing), Jiangsu.. limeilimei6868@126.com.
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000097:blood*; D014808:Vitamin D Deficiency / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D014807:Vitamin D