Humans in Antarctica face different environmental challenges, such as low ultra-violet radiation, which is crucial for vitamin D production in humans. Therefore we assessed changes in 25-OH-vitamin D serum concentration during 13 months of overwintering at the German Stations Neumayer II and III (2007-2012). We hypothesized that (i) 25-OH-vitamin D serum concentration would significantly decrease, (ii) changes would be affected by age, gender, baseline (i.e. pre-overwintering) fat mass, baseline 25-OH-vitamin D serum concentration, and station residence, and (iii) our results would not differ from similar previous studies in comparable high latitudes.
Changes of 25-OH-Vitamin D during overwintering at the German Antarctic stations Neumayer II and III / M. Steinach, E. Kohlberg, M.A. Maggioni, S. Mendt, O. Opatz, A. Stahn, J. Tiedemann, H. Gunga. - In: PLOS ONE. - ISSN 1932-6203. - 10:12(2015 Dec), pp. e0144130.1-e0144130.18. [10.1371/journal.pone.0144130]
Changes of 25-OH-Vitamin D during overwintering at the German Antarctic stations Neumayer II and III
M.A. Maggioni;
2015
Abstract
Humans in Antarctica face different environmental challenges, such as low ultra-violet radiation, which is crucial for vitamin D production in humans. Therefore we assessed changes in 25-OH-vitamin D serum concentration during 13 months of overwintering at the German Stations Neumayer II and III (2007-2012). We hypothesized that (i) 25-OH-vitamin D serum concentration would significantly decrease, (ii) changes would be affected by age, gender, baseline (i.e. pre-overwintering) fat mass, baseline 25-OH-vitamin D serum concentration, and station residence, and (iii) our results would not differ from similar previous studies in comparable high latitudes.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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