Vitamin D-fortified yoghurts 'improve diabetics' heart risk’
Friday 25th November 2011
People in dietician jobs could soon be prescribing vitamin D-fortified yoghurts to people with diabetes, after new findings showed it could be of benefit to their hearts.
Research published in journal BMC Medicine showed that regular consumption of a vitamin-D fortified yoghurt by diabetics improves cholesterol levels and biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction, which is a precursor of health disease.
The vitamin D was seen to improve the fasting glucose, insulin, QUICK 1 (a measure of insulin resistance), and some improvement was also found in long term HbA1c.
Professor Abolghassem Djazayery noted: "Most of our patients were deficient in vitamin D at the start of the trial but the fortified yoghurt drink elevated most of their levels to normal. However, even amongst those who took the vitamin D
supplement, some people (about five per cent) remained deficient at the end of the 12 weeks. These people did not show the same improvements."
Written by Angela Newbury
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