Endokrinologie und Diabetesforschung

Vitamin D and Diabetes Mellitus: What Do We Know?

Jian Liu

Vitamin D and Diabetes Mellitus: What Do We Know?

Diabetes mellitus, as a common metabolic disease, affects millions people’s health worldwide and its incidence is continuing to increase. It is important to find effective measures of prevention and/or intervention for the disease to reduce its impact on the risk for cardiovascular disease – the leading cause of mortality among patients with diabetes mellitus. Apart from its well-known “classic” effect in bone metabolism, vitamin D has received widespread attention for its potential role in the prevention of diabetes mellitus, in particular type 2 diabetes mellitus.