BLOOD SUGAR SPIKES AS VITAMIN D LEVEL SINKS

LOW levels of vitamin D have been linked to high blood sugar in type 2 diabetics.

An expert says study results indicate “vitamin D supplementation may help improve blood sugar control.”

Brazilian researchers tested 681 women aged from 35 to 74 to determine if blood sugar levels were affected by the amounts of vitamin D in the system.

They discovered blood sugar rose as levels of the vitamin fell in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Their findings suggest the vitamin “plays a role in improving the insulin response to an increase in the blood glucose level.”

Vitamin D also lowers dangers from metabolic syndrome — a condition of high blood pressure and blood sugar, excess waist fat and high cholesterol — which rockets the risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke, scientists

say.