Vitamin D and cardio-metabolic biomarkers: small-scale comparative study between Libyan migrants and resident women in Serbia

Autor: Ana Pantovic, Jasmina Debeljak-Martacic, Nevena Vidovic, Jelena Milešević, Marina Nikolić, Milica Zekovic, Manja Zec, Fathia Faid, Mustafa Mohamed Drah
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Erythrocytes
Physiology
Blood lipids
vitamin D
libyan women
magnesium
Recommended Dietary Allowances
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine
Serbian women
030212 general & internal medicine
chemistry.chemical_classification
Transients and Migrants
Incidence (epidemiology)
Incidence
vitamin d
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Micronutrient
3. Good health
Cardiovascular Diseases
Sunlight
Original Article
Female
Serbia
Polyunsaturated fatty acid
polyunsaturated fatty acids
Adult
Fortification
Libya
vitamin D deficiency
03 medical and health sciences
Metabolic Diseases
Cardio metabolic
Fatty Acids
Omega-6
Fatty Acids
Omega-3
Vitamin D and neurology
Humans
serbian women
Life Style
business.industry
Libyan women
medicine.disease
Vitamin D Deficiency
Cross-Sectional Studies
chemistry
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Biomarkers
Zdroj: Libyan Journal of Medicine, Vol 14, Iss 1 (2019)
The Libyan Journal of Medicine
Libyan Journal of Medicine
ISSN: 1819-6357
1993-2820
Popis: Libyan women are at high risk of vitamin D deficiency, mostly due to their lifestyle and low exposure to sun. In the last decades, Libyan residents have been forced to seek refuge in countries such as Serbia, a country with high incidence of cardio-metabolic diseases. Serbian residents tend to be deficient in vitamin D, mostly due to the lack of vitamin D fortification policy. The aim of this study was to evaluate vitamin D status in Libyan adult women migrating to Serbia, with the assessment of cardio-metabolic and nutritional biomarkers, including erythrocytes fatty acid composition, magnesium concentration, and dietary intake. The same markers were measured in Serbian women, and comparisons between the groups were made. Despite low vitamin D dietary intake in both study groups, we observed lower plasma vitamin D status in Libyan women. This was accompanied by a significantly lower concentration of magnesium in Libyan women. Libyan women had significantly higher omega-3 index and lower n-6/n-3 ratio in erythrocytes’ phospholipids. We observed significant negative correlation between vitamin D and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) concentrations in both study groups. Despite lower vitamin D status in the Libyan group, erythrocyte fatty acid composition, along with blood lipids’ concentrations, indicated a lower cardiovascular risk. Based on our results, the discrepancy in the vitamin D status could not be ascribed to the participants’ dietary intake of the micronutrient, rather is potentially associated with ethnic-specific cardio-metabolic profile, which should be confirmed in larger cohorts.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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