Tồn Trữ Tài Liệu Khảo Cứu Y Dược Khoa Của Người Việt
Bs Khanh Vinh Quoc Luong, Bs Lan Thi Hoang Nguyen và Bs Dung Ngoc Pham Nguyen với nghiên cứu: The Role of Vitamin D in Protecting Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

DIABETES/METABOLISM RESEARCH AND REVIEWS REVIEW ARTICLE
Diabetes Metab Res Rev 2005; 21: 338–346.
Published online 26 April 2005 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/dmrr.557

The role of vitamin D in protecting type 1 diabetes mellitus
Khanh vinh quoc Luong1*
Lan Thi Hoang Nguyen1
Dung Ngoc Pham Nguyen1,2
1- Vietnamese American Medical Research Foundation, Westminster, California
2- Metropolitan State Hospital, Norwalk, California

*Correspondence to: Khanh vinh quoc Luong, 14971 Brookhurst Street, Westminster, CA. 92683, USA. E-mail: Lng2687765@aol.com
Received: 3 March 2004
Revised: 15 July 2004
Accepted: 10 March 2005

Summary
The relationship between autoimmune diabetes or type 1 diabetes mellitus and vitamin D has been reported in the literature. Many factors, environmental and genetic, have been known, as risk factors, to cause both type 1 diabetes and vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D treatment has improved or prevented type 1 diabetes mellitus in animals and humans. Vitamin D also has been known to protect from autoimmune diseases in animal models. Therefore, it would be interesting to review the role of vitamin D in type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Copyright  2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords vitamin D; diabetes mellitus; 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3