Ambassador Hotel Bangkok
2ⁿᵈ Edition of Pharma R&D and Drug Discovery World Conference 2026
Speakers - 2025
Samia Abd elhamid Elzwi
- Designation: University of Benghazi
- Country: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Title: Differences between Factors Affecting Vitamin D in Diabetic Patients in Benghazi
Abstract
Vitamin D is a steroid hormone that is ingested through food, but the majority of it is produced in the skin or diet and transformed by the liver into 25 (OH ) vitamin D and the kidney into 1.25 dihydroxyvitamin D the (active metabolite) that is responsible for intestinal absorption of calcium and bone mineralization.In addition to rickets and osteomalacia, autoimmune diseases have also been linked to low vitamin D level. Diabetes mellitus is common disease in low and middle-income countries and has been growing at faster rate. Besides, link between diabetes and vitamin D has been showed as results of many studies. However, vitamin D is a widely known for its role in improving pancreatic cell function and insulin sensitivity, its mechanism is especially via the promotion of the expression of insulin receptors and enabling peroxisome proliferator –a activated response-δ which promotes glucose uptake in peripheral tissues, almost like antidiabetic drug pioglitazone mechanism of action.
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