Obesity is defined as an excess amount of body fat and represents a significant health
problem worldwide. High prevalence of vitamin D (VD) deficiency in obese subjects is a well …

Recent evidence revealed extra skeleton activity of vitamin D, including prevention from
cardiometabolic diseases and cancer development as well as anti-inflammatory properties …

Numerous studies have shown that vitamin D deficiency is very common in modern societies
and is perceived as an important risk factor in the development of insulin resistance and …

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to the onset of diabetes. This review summarizes the
role of Vitamin D in maintaining the normal release of insulin by the pancreatic beta cells (β …

Adipose tissue plays an important role in systemic metabolism via the secretion of
adipocytokines and storing and releasing energy. In obesity, adipose tissue becomes …

Adipose tissue has long been identified as the major site of vitamin D storage. Recent
studies have demonstrated that VDR and vitamin D metabolizing enzymes are expressed in …

Excessive body weight and obesity in childhood and adolescence are becoming more and
more important unfavorable factors that entail extremely adverse consequences and require …

Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) is the first discovered and most extensively
studied CC chemokine, and the amount of studies on its role in the etiologies of obesity-and …

Vitamin D deficiency and the rapid increase in the prevalence of obesity are both considered
important public health issues. The classical role of vitamin D is in Ca homoeostasis and …

Objective: Low vitamin D (VD) levels are common in obesity. We hypothesized that this may
be due to metabolism of VD in adipose tissue (AT). Thus, we studied (1) whether the VD …