Vitamin D and Obesity/Adiposity—A Brief Overview of Recent Studies.

Autor: Bennour, Imene, Haroun, Nicole, Sicard, Flavie, Mounien, Lourdes, Landrier, Jean-François
Zdroj: Nutrients; May2022, Vol. 14 Issue 10, p2049-2049, 16p
Abstrakt: Observational studies classically find an inverse relationship between human plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and obesity. However, interventional and genetic studies have failed to provide clear conclusions on the causal effect of vitamin D on obesity/adiposity. Likewise, vitamin D supplementation in obese rodents has mostly failed to improve obesity parameters, whereas several lines of evidence in rodents and prospective studies in humans point to a preventive effect of vitamin D supplementation on the onset of obesity. Recent studies investigating the impact of maternal vitamin D deficiency in women and in rodent models on adipose tissue biology programming in offspring further support a preventive metabolically driven effect of vitamin D sufficiency. The aim of this review is to summarize the state of the knowledge on the relationship between vitamin D and obesity/adiposity in humans and in rodents and the impact of maternal vitamin D deficiency on the metabolic trajectory of the offspring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index