% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Sha:276946, author = {S. Sha$^*$ and T. Gwenzi$^*$ and L.-J. Chen$^*$ and H. Brenner$^*$ and B. Schöttker$^*$}, title = {{A}bout the associations of vitamin {D} deficiency and biomarkers of systemic inflammatory response with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a general population sample of almost 400,000 {UK} {B}iobank participants.}, journal = {European journal of epidemiology}, volume = {38}, number = {9}, issn = {0393-2990}, address = {Dordrecht [u.a.]}, publisher = {Springer Science + Business Media B.V.}, reportid = {DKFZ-2023-01223}, pages = {957-971}, year = {2023}, note = {#EA:C070#LA:C070# / 2023 Sep;38(9):957-971}, abstract = {It is unknown whether the well-known association between vitamin D deficiency and mortality could be explained by the immune system modulating effects of vitamin D, which may protect from a systemic inflammatory response (SIR) to adverse health conditions. This study aims to investigate the interrelationships of vitamin D deficiency, biomarkers of SIR, and mortality. We used multivariate logistic regression with adjustment for 51 covariates to assess the associations of vitamin D deficiency with disadvantageous levels of nine biomarkers of SIR in the UK Biobank cohort. Furthermore, we tested with Cox regression and mediation analysis whether biomarkers of SIR and vitamin D deficiency were independently associated with mortality. We included 397,737 participants aged 37-73 years. Vitamin D deficiency was associated with disadvantageous levels of all blood cell count-based biomarkers, but not with C-reactive protein (CRP)-based biomarkers after adjustment for body weight. Vitamin D deficiency and all biomarkers of SIR were significantly associated with all-cause mortality and mortality from cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory disease. The strength of these associations was unaltered if vitamin D deficiency and biomarkers of SIR were put in the same model. This finding was further supported by the mediation analyses. This study showed that vitamin D deficiency is associated with disadvantageous levels of blood cell count-based but not CRP-based biomarkers of SIR. Vitamin D deficiency and systemic inflammation were independently and strongly associated with mortality. The potential of clinical interventions against both vitamin D deficiency and underlying causes of systemic inflammation should be explored.}, keywords = {All-cause mortality (Other) / Cancer mortality (Other) / Cardiovascular mortality (Other) / Systemic inflammatory response (Other) / Vitamin D (Other)}, cin = {C070 / C120 / HD01}, ddc = {610}, cid = {I:(DE-He78)C070-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)C120-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)HD01-20160331}, pnm = {313 - Krebsrisikofaktoren und Prävention (POF4-313)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-313}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, pubmed = {pmid:37340242}, doi = {10.1007/s10654-023-01023-2}, url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/276946}, }