Taye Demeke, Amra Osmancevic, Martin Gillstedt, Anne Lene Krogstad, Eva Angesjö, Håkan Sinclair, Gamal Abd El-Gawad, Emily Krantz, Penelope Trimpou, Kerstin Landin-Wilhelmsen
Objective: To explore the relationship between low serum vitamin D levels and comorbidity in Somali women, immigrants to Sweden. Design and setting: Cohort study in a Primary Health Care Center and a University Hospital. Subjects: Somali women skin type V, n = 114, aged 18-56 years, from latitude 0-10○ N, living in Sweden, latitude 57○ N > 2 years were compared with women from a population sample, skin type II-III, n = 69, aged 38-56 years, the WHO MONICA study, Gothenburg, Sweden. Main outcome measures: Serum (S)-25(OH)D, S-parathyroid hormone (PTH), comorbidity and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) using the Short Form-36 (SF-36) and part of the EQ-5D questionnaires...
June 2019: Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care