Lipid picture in working age people with insufficient and proper levels of vitamin D

Abstract

Dyslipidemia has been quite studied as one of fundamental risk factors for development of cardiovascular diseases. Another public problem of the global importance is lack or deficit of vitamin D, which is common in various populations around the world.
Object: This study was aimed to comparatively analyze lipid pictures of working age people with insufficient (referred to group 1) and proper (referred to group 2) levels of vitamin D.
Material and methods: Fifty-five men from Magadan region participated in the research. Photometric and immuno-chemo-luminescent methods, as well as standard methods for assessing body mass index based on measuring main characteristics of physical development used in the study.
Results: 42% of the examinees (group 1) demonstrated a shortage and 58% (group 2) a proper concentration of 25 (OH) vitamin D. Men from group 1 proved to have an atherogenic lipid profile, which could be seen in significantly high values of such indicators as total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, and atherogenicity status; in addition, they tended to have significantly high body mass index values. As for male northerners from group 2, their lipid pictures showed healthier lipid profiles.
Conclusion: In this study, men with high body mass indices who had vitamin D deficiency exhibited changes in metabolic biomarkers which were strongly related to more common dyslipidemia and pronounced atherogenicity of lipid profiles.