Serum Calcium Concentrations, Chronic Inflammation and Glucose Metabolism: A Cross-Sectional Analysis in the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study (APCaPS).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence suggests a role for elevated serum calcium in dysregulated glucose metabolism, linked through low-level chronic inflammation.

Objectives

We investigated the association of elevated serum calcium concentrations (corrected for albumin) with markers of dysregulated glucose metabolism and type II diabetes and tested if these associations were accounted for by chronic inflammation in a rural Indian population.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis of participants aged 40-84 y from the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study (APCaPS; n = 2699, 52.2% women) was conducted. Comprehensive information on household, sociodemographic, and lifestyle factors; medical and family history; physical measurements; blood measurements including fasting plasma gluc

SUBMITTER: Shridhar K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6416530 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature