Vitamin D Associations With Renal, Bone, and Cardiovascular Phenotypes: African American-Diabetes Heart Study. | Vanderbilt Center for Clinical Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and Trials Evaluation

Freedman BI, Divers J, Russell GB, Palmer ND, Wagenknecht LE, Smith SC, Xu J, Carr JJ, Bowden DW, Register TC. Vitamin D Associations With Renal, Bone, and Cardiovascular Phenotypes: African American-Diabetes Heart Study. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism. 2015 Oct;100(100). 3693-701. PMID: 26196951 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC4596046

Abstract

Vitamin D binding protein (DBP) is an important determinant of bioavailable vitamin D (BAVD) and may provide clues to racial variation in osteoporosis and atherosclerosis.