English to Portuguese Medical Nutrition

"Furthermore, we found that diabetic nephropathy, a well-characterized complication of T2D, leads to excessive urinary excretion of circulating 25(OH)D and vitamin D–binding protein (DBP), thereby exacerbating vitamin D deficiency (12–14). Therefore, there is a critical need to identify dietary intervention strategies to prevent and/or treat vitamin D deficiency in the diabetic population."
From the article "Dietary Whole Egg Consumption Attenuates Body Weight Gain and Is More Effective than Supplemental Cholecalciferol in Maintaining Vitamin D Balance in Type 2 Diabetic Rats" by Cassondra J Saande, Samantha K Jones, Kaylee E Hahn, Carter H Reed, Matthew J Rowling, and Kevin L Schalinske.