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SUBMITTER: Cefalo CMA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6175391 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 20180304 4
<h4>Objective</h4>The aim was to investigate whether vitamin D supplementation, combined with a hypocaloric diet, could have an independent effect on insulin sensitivity in subjects with both overweight and hypovitaminosis D. Changes from baseline in anthropometric parameters, body composition, glucose tolerance, and insulin secretion were considered as secondary outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>Eighteen volunteers who were nondiabetic and vitamin D deficient and had BMI > 25 kg/m<sup>2</sup> were rando ...[more]