The association of serum vitamin D deficiency and metabolic risk factors in Chinese adults with prediabetes (PreDM) has not been investigated. The present study aimed to investigate the association of serum vitamin D deficiency and metabolic risk factors in Chinese adults with PreDM. In this cross-sectional study, we stratified 412 PreDM patients into vitamin D sufficient, vitamin D insufficient and vitamin D deficient subgroups. The physical examination data was collected. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 [25(OH)D3] were measured by high performance liquid chromatography. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in PreDM patients were 30.58% and 26.70%, respectively. Compared with the vitamin D deficient group, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, central obesity, hyperglycemia and hypertension were higher than those in the vitamin D insufficient or sufficient group (p<0.05). Moreover, the prevalence of dyslipidemia in the vitamin D deficient group was higher than those in the vitamin D sufficient group (p<0.05). We observed an inverse relationship between 25(OH)D3 levels and waist circumference, triglyceride, and serum uric acid (β=-0.315; β=-0.134; β=-0.239), a positive relationship between 25(OH)D3 levels and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (β=0.197) after adjusting for age, sex and body mass index. Vitamin D deficiency is very common among PreDM patients in China and this deficiency is related to metabolic risk factors.
Keywords: 25-hydroxyvitamin D3; high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; triglyceride; uric acid; waist circumference.