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Sex‐specific vitamin D effects on blood coagulation among overweight adults
Author(s) -
AlDaghri Nasser M.,
Alokail Majed S.,
Manousopoulou Antigoni,
Heinson Ashley,
AlAttas Omar,
AlSaleh Yousef,
Sabico Shaun,
Yakout Sobhy,
Woelk Christopher H.,
Chrousos George P.,
Garbis Spiros D.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european journal of clinical investigation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.164
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1365-2362
pISSN - 0014-2972
DOI - 10.1111/eci.12688
Subject(s) - overweight , coagulation , vitamin d and neurology , medicine , vitamin , physiology , blood coagulation factors , endocrinology , body mass index
Background Overweight adults are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease and vitamin D deficiency, whereas an important feature to vitamin D physiology is its sex dependence. The aim of this study was to examine whether vitamin D status improvement exerts a sexually dimorphic effect on serum proteins associated with cardiovascular risk among overweight adults. Materials and methods Unprocessed serum from age‐ and BMI‐matched men ( n = 26) and premenopausal women ( n = 24) with vitamin D deficiency and after they achieved sufficiency through a 12‐month nutritional intervention was analysed using our previously published depletion‐free quantitative proteomics method. Key findings were verified with ELISA. Differentially expressed proteins were subjected to in silico bioinformatics assessment using principal component analysis, hierarchical clustering and Metacore ™ pathway analysis. All mass spectrometry proteomic data are available via ProteomeXchange (identifier: PXD003663). Results A total of 282 proteins were differentially expressed after the intervention between men and women ( P ‐value ≤ 0·05), in which the blood coagulation pathway was significantly enriched. In agreement with the proteomics findings, ELISA measurements showed vitamin K‐dependent protein C, von Willebrand factor, fibrinogen gamma chain and multimerin‐1 proteins, of relevance to blood coagulation, to be differentially affected ( P ‐value ≤ 0·05) between sexes after vitamin D status correction. Conclusions This study identified novel protein‐level molecular indicators on the sexually dimorphic effect of vitamin D status correction associated with blood coagulation among overweight adults. These sex‐mediated vitamin D effects should be factored in the design and interpretation of vitamin D observational and interventional studies testing cardiometabolic outcomes.