Vitamin D supplementation and its impact on leptin and interleukin-6 in women following religious intermittent fasting: a controlled study
Vitamin D supplementation effectively corrected deficiency but did not significantly affect leptin or IL-6 concentrations. These results highlight the need for larger and longer studies to further clarify the immunometabolic impact of vitamin D supplementation in women practicing intermittent fasting.
Authors
- Georgios Tzimagiorgis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8339-9800)
- Marios Anemoulis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5804-4669)
- Cédric Annweiler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7199-8109)
- Stefan Pilz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7959-1311)
- Antonios Vlastos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6901-744X)
- Maria Kypraiou
- Neoklis A. Georgopoulos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3754-4082)
- Spyridon Ν. Karras (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4225-2746)
- Costas Haitoglou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8372-2946)
- Hana Fakhoury (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9974-2108)
- Fatme Al Anouti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1993-6656)
- Uwe Riedmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2541-9604)
- Konstantinos Michalakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5576-2446)
- Evangelos Papanikolaou
Institutions
- Western University (CA)
- Alfaisal University (SA)
- University of Patras (GR)
- Medical University of Graz (AT)
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
- Assisting Nature (GR)
- Terre des Sciences (FR)
- Athens Medical Center (GR)
- The Memory Clinic (US)
- Université d'Angers (FR)
- Zayed University (AE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Endocrinology
- Published
- 2025-11-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2025.1700844
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Dietary Effects on Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.16