1. Associations of vitamin D status with dietary intakes and physical activity levels among adults from seven European countries: the Food4Me study.
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Manios, Yannis, Moschonis, George, Lambrinou, Christina P., Mavrogianni, Christina, Tsirigoti, Lydia, Hoeller, Ulrich, Roos, Franz F., Bendik, Igor, Eggersdorfer, Manfred, Celis-Morales, Carlos, Livingstone, Katherine M., Marsaux, Cyril F. M., Macready, Anna L., Fallaize, Rosalind, O’Donovan, Clare B., Woolhead, Clara, Forster, Hannah, Walsh, Marianne C., Navas-Carretero, Santiago, and San-Cristobal, Rodrigo
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DIETARY supplements , *INGESTION , *SEX distribution , *VITAMIN D , *VITAMIN D deficiency , *DISEASE prevalence , *PHYSICAL activity - Abstract
Purpose: To report the vitamin D status in adults from seven European countries and to identify behavioural correlates.Methods: In total, 1075 eligible adult men and women from Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Greece, UK, Poland and Germany, were included in the study.Results: Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency, defined as 25-hydroxy vitamin D3 (25-OHD3) concentration of <30 and 30-49.9 nmol/L, respectively, were observed in 3.3 and 30.6% of the participants. The highest prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was found in the UK and the lowest in the Netherlands (8.2 vs. 1.1%, P < 0.05). In addition, the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency was higher in females compared with males (36.6 vs. 22.6%, P < 0.001), in winter compared with summer months (39.3 vs. 25.0%, P < 0.05) and in younger compared with older participants (36.0 vs. 24.4%, P < 0.05). Positive dose-response associations were also observed between 25-OHD3 concentrations and dietary vitamin D intake from foods and supplements, as well as with physical activity (PA) levels. Vitamin D intakes of ≥5 μg/day from foods and ≥5 μg/day from supplements, as well as engagement in ≥30 min/day of moderate- and vigorous-intensity PA were associated with higher odds (P < 0.05) for maintaining sufficient (≥50 nmol/L) 25-OHD3 concentrations.Conclusions: The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency varied considerably among European adults. Dietary intakes of ≥10 μg/day of vitamin D from foods and/or supplements and at least 30 min/day of moderate- and vigorous-intensity PA were the minimum thresholds associated with vitamin D sufficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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