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SUBMITTER: Arosio B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7551757 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arosio Beatrice B Guerini Franca Rosa FR Costa Andrea Saul AS Dicitore Alessandra A Ferri Evelyn E Mari Daniela D Torresani Erminio E Clerici Mario M Cesari Matteo M Vitale Giovanni G
Nutrients 20200905 9
The "male-female health-survival paradox" evidences that the survival advantage observed in women is linked to higher rates of disability and poor health status compared to men, a phenomenon also called the "sex-frailty paradox". The depletion of vitamin D seems to play a role in the fragilization of old persons, and genetic polymorphisms of the <i>vitamin D receptor</i> (<i>VDR</i>) gene seem to be involved in regulating the vitamin D pathway. This study correlated the <i>VDR</i> gene polymorph ...[more]