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Fatty fish and the relation between 25(OH) vitamin D and triacylglycerol

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition volume 65, page 661 (2011)Cite this article

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In a recent issue of the Journal, Jorde et al. (2010) described in their observational research a statistically significant increase in serum triacylglycerol associated with a decrease in serum 25(OH) vitamin D. When the longitudinal data were divided into quartiles of change in serum 25(OH) vitamin D from 1994 to 2008, and after adjustment for gender, age and body mass index, triacylglycerol concentrations decreased across increasing changes in serum 25(OH) vitamin D quartiles.

However, this observational result is in contradiction with the results of a recent intervention study, in which supplementation of 400 IU vitamin D a day during 5 years was not associated with changes in serum lipid profile (Rajpathak et al., 2010).

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Mullie, P., Autier, P. Fatty fish and the relation between 25(OH) vitamin D and triacylglycerol. Eur J Clin Nutr 65, 661 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2010.295

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