While the D appears first in the word “diabetes”, you look for it in vain when it comes to the disease. This is the result of a study by the IIHMR University in Jaipur (India). The scientists found that six out of ten type 2 diabetes mellitus patients have a significant vitamin D deficiency.

In the event of a vitamin D deficiency, glucose metabolism and insulin signaling pathways can be impaired, which promotes the development or progression of type 2 diabetes.

But other vitamins are also often missing in diabetes patients and thus promote the disease. Patient data from more than 52,000 people with type 2 diabetes from 132 studies have shown that every second participant was deficient in several micronutrients. Women were affected more often than men.

The researchers most often noticed a vitamin D deficiency. Almost 42 percent also lacked magnesium and almost 30 percent suffered from a vitamin B12 deficiency. The latter was even higher under treatment with metformin.

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