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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level, chronic diseases and all-cause mortality in a population-based prospective cohort:
Yi-Qian Sun1, Arnulf Langhammer2, Frank Skorpen1
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health (LBK), Trondheim, Norway.
Objective:
To investigate the association of vitamin D status with all-cause mortality in a Norwegian population and the potential influences of existing chronic diseases on the association.
Design:
A population-based prospective cohort study.
Setting:
Nord-Trøndelag County, Norway.
Participants:
A random sample (n=6613) of adults aged 20 years or older in a cohort.
Methods:
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels were measured in blood samples collected at baseline (n=6377). Mortality was ascertained from the Norwegian National Registry. Cox regression models were applied to estimate the HRs with 95% CIs for all-cause mortality in association with serum 25(OH)D levels after adjustment for a wide spectrum of confounding factors as well as chronic diseases at baseline.
Results:
The median follow-up time was 18.5 years, during which 1539 subjects died. The HRs for all-cause mortality associated with the first quartile level of 25(OH)D (<34.5 nmol/L) as compared with the fourth quartile (≥58.1 nmol/L) before and after adjustment for chronic diseases at baseline were 1.30 (95% CI 1.11 to 1.51) and 1.27 (95% CI 1.09 to 1.48), respectively. In the subjects without chronic diseases at baseline and with further exclusion of the first 3 years of follow-up, the corresponding adjusted HR was 1.34 (95% CI 1.09 to 1.66).
Conclusions:
Low serum 25(OH)D level was associated with increased all-cause mortality in a general Norwegian population. The association was not notably influenced by existing chronic diseases.
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