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SUBMITTER: Bertoccini L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6201852 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bertoccini Laura L Bailetti Diego D Buzzetti Raffaella R Cavallo Maria Gisella MG Copetti Massimiliano M Cossu Efisio E D'Angelo Paola P De Cosmo Salvatore S Di Mauro Lazzaro L Leonetti Frida F Morano Susanna S Morviducci Lelio L Napoli Nicola N Prudente Sabrina S Pugliese Giuseppe G Trischitta Vincenzo V Baroni Marco Giorgio MG
Oncotarget 20181009 79
Mortality rate is increased in type 2 diabetes (T2D). Low vitamin D levels are associated with increased mortality risk in T2D. In the general population, genetic variants affecting vitamin D metabolism (<i>DHCR7</i> rs12785878, <i>CYP2R1</i> rs10741657, <i>GC</i> rs4588) have been associated with serum vitamin D. We studied the association of these variants with serum vitamin D in 2163 patients with T2D from the "Sapienza University Mortality and Morbidity Event Rate (SUMMER) study in diabetes" ...[more]