The Vitamin D Status of Prison Inmates
| Autor: | Carlos Flores, Thomas Groblewski, Barbara Colocino, Kerry Folkman, Patricia Ruze, Benjamin U. Nwosu, Louise Maranda, Rosalie Berry |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Gerontology media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:Medicine Black People Prison Reference Daily Intake Security Measures White People vitamin D deficiency Endocrinology medicine Vitamin D and neurology Humans Vitamin D lcsh:Science Security level Nutrition media_common Multidisciplinary Endocrine Physiology business.industry Prisoners Dietary intake lcsh:R Racial group Middle Aged Vitamin D Deficiency medicine.disease Massachusetts Medicine lcsh:Q Female Seasons Public Health business Research Article Demography Maximum security |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 3, p e90623 (2014) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | Introduction There is no comprehensive, systematic analysis of the vitamin D status of prisoners in the scientific literature. Objective To investigate the vitamin D status and its determinants in US prison inmates. Hypothesis Given the uniformity of dietary intake amongst inmates, vitamin D status will be determined by non-dietary factors such as skin pigmentation, security level-, and the duration of incarceration. Subjects and Methods A retrospective study of 526 inmates (males, n = 502, age 48.6±12.5 years; females, n = 24, age 44.1±12.2) in Massachusetts prisons. Vitamin D sufficiency, insufficiency, and deficiency were respectively defined as a 25(OH)D concentration 75 nmol/L; 50 to 75 nmol/L; and |
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