Dark skinned people are very vitamin d deficient

Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D
FACT - - People with dark skins have more health problems and higher mortality rate than those with light skins
FACT - - People with dark skins have low levels of vitamin D
FACT - - People with light skins who have low vitamin D have health problems
OBSERVATION - - The health problems of whites with low level of vitamin D are similar to those of
CONCLUSION - - People with dark skins have more health problems due to low levels of vitamin D
Increased Death Rate with Dark Skin- - - - - - -
Do blacks have a 5 year life penalty due to low vitamin D from JAMA 2007
Heart Disease 1.3 years
HIV 0.6 years, Perinatal death 0.5 years, Stroke 0.4 years, Lung cancer 0.3 years,
Other cancer 0.3 years, Diabetes 0.3 years, Prostate cancer 0.3 years, Septicemia 0.2 years,
Hypertension 0.2 years, Nephritis 0.2 years, Homicide 1.0 years (depression?)
Unintentional injuries 0.4 years (drugs, autos, falls)
Perinatal death 0.5 years
Homicide 1.0 years (some of which is due to depression)
Striking ethnic health disparity – blacks dying due to lack of vitamin D – Nov 2011
Lack of vitamin D closely associated with black health disparities – Nov 2010 which includes:
Cardiovascular disease, Congestive heart failure, Chronic kidney disease, Cognitive impairment
Glucose metabolism, Peripheral arterial disease, End-stage renal disease, Diabetes
Cancer, Breast cancer, Colorectal cancer, Influenza, common cold, Sepsis, All-cause mortality rate
Chart of Vitamin D levels vs race - April 2013 has the following
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The Black/White survival discrepancy peaks at age 78: chronic illness
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Blacks 10X more likely to be vitamin D deficient ( < 17.8 ng)
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US vitamin D deficiency vs skin color details were reported by CDC
March 2012
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Amount of vitamin D deficiency depends on amount of African-American
blood (darkness of skin?)
CLICK HERE for more information
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Vitamin D Council filed a complaint with the FDAabout vitamin D
deficiency in blacks
2X more likely to have underweight babies
10X more likely for black women to be vitamin D deficient
83% of children with rickets are African-Americans
ALL of the major fatal illnesses of African-Americans are linked to vitamin D deficiency
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The health disparity for dark skinned people is almost the same as
whites having a low level of vitamin D
Black vs White White: low D vs high D
breast cancer 1.34 1.26
colorectal cancer 1.43 1.44
cardiovascular disease 1.29 1.27
all-cause mortality 1.26 1.26
CLICK HERE for details, Dr. Grant
Diabetes- - - - - - -
Vitamin D level higher than 30 ng reduces diabetic blood clotting – Nov 2012
Starting clinical trial to see if can lower hypertension for A-A with diabetes
Chart of diabetes vs latitude
90 percent of Dark Skinned diabetics had less than 30 ng of vitamin D – July 2011
Diabetes 2X less likely for those with median 34 ng of vitamin D – Sept 2010
Hypothesis: Vitamin D supplementation will decrease CVD and diabetes in African Americans – May 2011
Diabetes rising quickly in areas with recent air conditioning – June 2011 lots of good graphics
Pre-diabetes and hypertension 2.4X more common when less than 30 ng of vitamin D – Jan 2011
Virtually all Native American children low on vitamin D and had indications of diabetes – Oct 2011
Metabolic Syndrome and vitamin D Diabetes is one of the Metabolic Syndrome diseases
Overview Diabetes and Vitamin D
all items in Diabetes category 209 items
Pregnancy- - - - - - -
Pregnant women vitamin D insufficient: Black = 97% Hispanic = 81% – July 2010
Black births are much riskier due to lack of vitamin D
Rickets in 30 % of infants in India who had low vitamin D – March 2011
Vitamin D May Be a Link to Black-White Disparities in Adverse Birth Outcomes – April 2010
Vitamin D: Before, During, and After Pregnancy
Dark Skinned Women - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Breast cancer worse for black women – Sept 2011
Breast cancer more deadly for blacks than whites

Black women lacking Calcium and Vitamin D weighed more – Aug 2011
Elderly black women had low vitamin D which did not increase in the summer – Jan 2010
Rickets/Battered Child- - - - -
83% of children with rickets are African-Americans Vitamin D Council
Your vitamin D deficient infant could be taken away from you – Sept 2010
The above item from the Vitamin D council includes the following quotes:
"1/4 of all otherwise normal infants have evidence of infantile rickets while they are still in the womb."
"... it is likely that tens of thousands of infants are being sent home from the hospital with multiple fractures
because no one has ever done a study looking for asymptomatic fractures."
All items in category Rickets 71 items
Hypertension and Strokes- - - - - - -
Hypothesis that lack of vitamin D increases blood pressure in blacks – July 2010
Twice as many fatal strokes among whites who were low on vitamin D – Jan 2012 but not blacks - why?
Vitamin D for prevention and treatment of strokes – Aug 2010
Vitamin D accounts for 25 percent of the racial differences in blood pressure – Oct 2011
Overview of Hypertension and Vitamin D
Obesity - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Dark skinned obese not helped much by weekly 50000 IU dose of vitamin D – May 2011
Black women lacking Calcium and Vitamin D weighed more – Aug 2011
Overview Obesity and Vitamin D
Heavier kids more vitamin D deficient, especially if dark skinned – Pediatrics Dec 2012
Kidney - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
End stage kidney disease almost 3X more likely for blacks – 2009
Blacks have low vitamin D and have 50 % more kidney failure – Sept 2011
Majority of blacks on dialysis were vitamin D deficient - March 2010
Overview Kidney and Vitamin D
Multiple Sclerosis - - - - - - -
Google Search web for "+"Multiple sclerosis" +african-american difference" got more than 4,000 Aug 2010
MS Forum discussion for African Americans with MS
African Americans with MS at VitaminDWiki from various sources
Ways to reduce MS relapse - includes vitamin D- 13 pages May 2010
Michelle Obama's father was another African American with MS living in the North. from 2008 speech: My Dad was our rock.
Although he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in his early thirties, he was our provider, our champion, our hero. As he got
sicker, it got harder for him to walk, it took him longer to get dressed in the morning. But if he was in pain, he never let on. He
never stopped smiling and laughing - even while struggling to button his shirt, even while using two canes to get himself across the
room to give my Mom a kiss..
Montel Williams has MS, has an MS website, and is a big proponent of marijuana to reduce intensity of MS
Interesting to note that Google gets 70,000 hits for +"Multiple sclerosis" +"vitamin d" +marijuana.
Perhaps vitamin D is as good or better treatment for MS than marijuana
Overview MS and Vitamin D
Mortality and D- - - - - - -
Vit D deficiency best prediction of death in hospital
All Cause Mortality big improvement from 15 to 27 ng - Heaney chart 2010 (file)
Recommend 2500-4000 IU per day to reduce all-cause mortality by 18%– Grant Netherlands April 2010
All items in category Mortality 92 items
Perhaps Dark Skin does not need as much vitamin D - - - -
Blacks may need less vitamin D than whites – PTHAug 2010
Improved blood flow in blacks with just 2000 IU of vitamin D – Feb 2011
Blacks may not need as much Vitamin D many articles
Africans in Europe might only need 19 ng of vitamin D – estimated from PTH July 2011
20 ng of vitamin D is enough for African American PTH – Dec 2011
Perhaps just 40 ng of vitamin D if high latitude or dark skin
Traditionally living Africans have 46 ng vitamin D levels – Jan 2012
Dark skinned people may not need as much vitamin D – April 2012
Additional HIGH RISK categories - - - - - - - -

- Living far from the equator and not take a trip to a sunny area in the winter
(Pres. Obama needs his winter trip to sunny Hawaii to get vitamin D)
- Avoid the hot sun
- Overweight
- Seniors
- Wear lots of clothes all of the time - typically for religious reasons
- Poor gut absorption: various reasons
- Had recent surgery/trauma (which consumes a lot of vitamin D)
Half of the US will be people of color – wonder how many will be vitamin D deficient
Assess your level of vitamin D deficiency - especially if dark skin, far from equator, medical condition, ..
Studies linked low vitamin D and dark skin to Obesity, Diabetes, and heart – June 2011
CLICK HERE for Overview of Vitamin D Deficiency
Overview How Much vitamin D need >2,000 IU if in a high risk group: has the following:
See also at VitaminDWiki - Dark Skin
Black women and vitamin D: Nigeria 26 ng, Chicago 12 ng – April 2013
Low Vitamin D with dark skin, even if live closer to equator and higher altitude – Feb 2013
Similar response to Vitamin D supplements by senior white and black women – Feb 2013 - once the black women have a loading
dose
US Minorities have poor health – how much is due to little sun – Feb 2013
Blacks had lower vitamin D and more quantifiable pain than whites with knee osteoarthritis – Nov 2012
Forearm fracture 3.5X more often in black children with low levels of vitamin D – Sept 2012
Extra 4,000 IU daily raised the vitamin D levels of blacks to that of whites – July 2012
Dark skin does not generate as much vitamin D from the same amount of UV – Nov 2011
The darker the skin the less the vitamin D – July 2010
Vitamin D insufficiency in UK youths – 37X more likely if dark skin – July 2011
Blacks born in Africa and moved to US had 27X higher rate of TB than people born in the US 2000-2009
All items in Skin Color and vitamin D 257 items
Human skin pigmentation, migration and disease susceptibility – Mar 2012
82 % of black US adults < 20 ng of vitamin D – Jan 2011
88 % of African immigrants to Melborne had < 20 ng of vitamin D
Black veterans have worse health and low vitamin D, yet are not tested as much – June 2011
Black members of Adventist church have improved health defy health recommends 30 minutes daily sun
Blacks not taking mulitvitamins were 5X more likely to be vitamin D insufficient– June 2011
Dark skin people in Norway 2X more deficient and have 3X more headaches if low on vitamin D
Vitamin D Genes varied seasonally with European but not Asian ancestors – June 2011
Striking ethnic health disparity – blacks dying due to lack of vitamin D – Nov 2011
28 % of dark skinned people in UK not heard of vitamin D and 54 % not know symptoms – Jan 2012
Dark Skinned youths and vitamin D in Southern Canada - Dissertation 2011
Second generation dark skinned immigrants live shorter lives wonder why
Telomeres improved when obese blacks took 2000 iu of vitamin D daily – Oct 2011
Somali did not have a word for autism before getting to Canada Vitamin D Council
Low vitamin D before orthopedic surgery – dark skin 5X more likely – Oct 2010
Blacks living in urban area vs rural have less vitamin D if older than 50 – Oct 2011
First vitamin D book for blacks – 2011
Videos: Black doctor 6 minutes CNN Dr. Gupta Dr. Sorenson 1 minute
Off topic: Only 30 percent of African American children know how to swim – Aug 2012
Race vs vitamin D level - Veith May 2011 has the following chart

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Teens increasingly indoors 8.5 hours white, 13 hours dark skin
Some diseases TREATED by Vitamin D
Overview Cancer and vitamin D
Overview Diabetes and vitamin D
Overview MS and vitamin D
Overview Obesity and Vitamin D about 1/3 of the obese are treated by vitamin D
Overview Osteoporosis and vitamin D
but only when the bone can be rebuilt - otherwise density will increase without increase in bone strength
Overview Parkinson's Disease and Vitamin D
Overview Kidney and vitamin D
See also at VitaminDWiki
vitamin D epidemic
The importance of co-factors
Too much Calcium causes problems with higher levels of vitamin D
People with low vitamin D can be trapped in vitamin D vicious circles
Low cost vitamin D Blood Tests, some of which you can do at home
Take vitamin D daily or weekly rather than less frequent intervals
Very few people have an allergic reaction to Vitamin D start slowly so as to check for allergies
Quick FREE self test of vitamin D deficiency

Notes on what to add:
how often to take - the body averages your intake over a month - so only need a weekly dose (easier to remember)
very low cost as capsule, liquid, spray, chewable, etc
feel better in weeks - not wait to feel the benefit in years
Workshop on Vitamin D ( audience was seniors in the Northern part of the US- but much of it applies to others)
loading dose
how much to take
Note:The amount of vitamin D you actually need can be 1/2 as much or 2X as much
The relationship between dose and response varies a lot between individuals for many reasons
HERE are some of the ways you can 2X the response in the blood to a dose of vitamin D
# of risk factors Prevent Disease Treat Disease
0 2,000 IU 6,000 IU
1 (example: dark skin) 4,000 IU 10,000 IU
2 8,000 IU lots
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Surgeon General of the US might also be interested
Regina M. Benjamin, like many other African-Americans, has had a lot of deaths in her family from diseases associated with low vitamin D
brother - HIV , mother - lung cancer, father complications of a stroke: diabetes and heart disease
She, in addition to being black, is overweight
During her Dec 2011 TedMed video she made the following comments:
"Doctors are too involved at putting out fires to deal with fire prevention" (= vitamin D)
"Prevention needs to be profitable" (VitaminDWiki is trying to show HMOs how to increase profits with vitamin D)
Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin Says "Health Is In Everything We Do Feb 2013
Clip
Citing the toll of preventable illnesses such as diabetes, high blood pressure and smoking as reasons her family was not able to be
with her at the announcement of her new appointment, Dr. Benjamin declared "I cannot change my family's past, but I can be a voice to
improve our nation's health for the future."
{Note: Vitamin D would most likely have reduced the death rate of her family members from those three health problems)
Surgeon General's Office made an extensive report on Suicide Prevention in Sept 2012
Suicide 2X more likely with low vitamin D (in military) – Jan 2013 VitaminDWiki
Areport from the U.S. Surgeon General found that from 1980 - 1995, the suicide rate among African
Americans ages 10 to 14 increased 233%, as compared to 120% of Non-Hispanic Whites.
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See also on the Web
Health Disparities Experienced by Black or African Americans by CDC - US
Office on Minority Health US
includes Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, HIV/AIDS, Immunization, Infant Mortality, and Stroke
Black Women's Health Imperative
Healthy Black Men
Black Doctor
Women's Health for African-Americans US
Black Health Zone
LA Times June 2012 based on 4 year old data (2008)
A black baby boy will die 5.4 years earlier than white boy

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A black baby girl will die 3.7 years earlier than white girl.
The life expectancy for black men 70.8 years, vs 76.2 years for white men
The life expectancy for black women 77.5 years, vs 80.3 years for white women.
When should medicine talk about race? Part 2: Seven guidelines Scientific American Aug 2012 - no mention of vitamin D
Summarizes a JAMA publication of 2003
African American Community Mental Health 2012? 1 page, has the following
Across a recent 15-year span, suicide rates increased 233 % among African Americans aged 10-14 compared to 120 % among
similar Caucasian Americans
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