VITAMIN D
and cholesterol
The importance of the sun
DR DAVID GRIMES
Vitamin D and Cholesterol:
The importance of the sun
- Why are there high morbidity and mortality rates in the UK and northwest Europe?
- Why do the populations of north-west England, Scotland and Northern Ireland have reduced life-expectancy compared to that of south-east England?
- Why does living at a high altitude improve health and life-expectancy?
- Why do poor people in north-west Europe have worse health and shorter life-expectancy than the wealthy?
- Why do South Asian immigrants in the UK have a particularly high incidence of coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes and end-stage renal failure?
- Why do their children born in the UK have an even worse health profile?
- Why do they share these risks with immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean?
- In what way are coronary heart disease, diabetes and chronic renal failure connected?
- What is the nature of susceptibility to a number of important diseases at the present time?
- What is the mechanism of “the maternal factor” and non-genetic inheritance?
- Why does immuno-deficiency predispose to coronary heart disease?
- Is coronary heart disease due to one or more microbes?
- Is insufficiency of vitamin D an important cause of immuno-deficiency?
- Is insufficiency of vitamin D the major factor determining susceptibility to coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis and other important diseases?
- What is the nature of the close relationship between inflammation and cancer?
- What is “auto-immune disease”?
- What about immuno-deficiency, vitamin D, and Crohn´s disease?
- Why is month of birth important for adult health?
- Is high serum cholesterol important?
- Why are statins of such great clinical benefit?
- What is the relationship between cholesterol, statins and vitamin D?
