Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with Depletion of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Endothelial Dysfunction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Yiu, Yuen-Fung; Chan, Yap‐Hang; Yiu, Kai‐Hang; Siu, Chung‐Wah; Li, Sheung-Wai; Wong, Lai-Yung; W.L. Lee, Stephen; Tam, Sidney; W. K. Wong, Eric; M.Y. Cheung, Bernard; Tse, Hung‐Fat

doi:10.1210/jc.2010-2212

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Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with Depletion of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Endothelial Dysfunction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism • Feb 17, 2011

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Yuen-Fung Yiu

Yap‐Hang Chan

Kai‐Hang Yiu

Abstract

CONTEXT: Vitamin D (Vit-D) deficiency is associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and endothelial dysfunction. The relationship of Vit-D deficiency with circulating endothelial progenitor cells and endothelial dysfunction in type 2 DM patients nonetheless remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to...

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Medicine

vitamin D deficiency

Endothelial dysfunction

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