Inverse association between serum vitamin B12 concentration and obesity among adults in the United States.

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Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2019 ;10:414. Epub 2019 Jun 27. PMID: 31316466

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Inverse Association Between Serum Vitamin B12 Concentration and Obesity Among Adults in the United States.

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Several studies have suggested that vitamin B12 deficiency is more common in obese individuals. We evaluated the cross-sectional associations of serum vitamin B12 concentrations with obesity in a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States.We included 9,075 participants aged≥20 years in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011-2014. Serum vitamin B12 concentrations were measured by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay. Obesity was defined as BMI ≥30 kg/m. We used logistic regression with sample weights to estimate the odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).Serum vitamin B12 concentrations were lower among obese adults compared with non-obese adults. After adjustment for age, gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, dietary and lifestyle factors, use of medications that could affect the serum vitamin B12 levels, dietary supplement use and fasting time, the multivariable-adjusted ORs (95% CIs) of obesity were 1.00 (reference), 0.95 (0.79, 1.14), 0.86 (0.74, 0.99), and 0.71 (0.60, 0.84) (for trend

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