The Response of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D to Incidental Ultraviolet Light Exposure

Completed

Conditions studied: Melanoma

In brief

1.1 To detect reproducible variations of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels throughout the course of one year in relationship to objectively measured levels of ultraviolet exposure. 1.2 To determine specific times within the year that would yield the most significant data that could be focused on in future, larger studies examining whether there are protective effects of serum vitamin D on the development of cutaneous melanoma

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00832533

Run by

New Mexico Cancer Research Alliance

People needed

9

Starts

2008-11-01

Expected to finish

2010-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-09-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Light-skinned volunteers (Caucasians including Hispanics with slightly darker complexion)
• 18 years of age (5 men and 5 women)
• Resident in the State of New Mexico
• Indoor workers with no significant history of prolonged, excessive sun exposure
• Willing to have a monthly blood draw
• Willing to fill out the sun diary every day on different indoor/outdoor activities.
• During the project time period potential pregnancy of women volunteers would change the risk category of the participants, and that is a reportable event to UNM HSC HRRC and the Clinical Trial Office.
• Further explanation of the inclusion criteria:
• This pilot study is intended to evaluate the dose-response associations between measured UV exposure and individual serum 25 (OH)-vitamin D levels. To date, there is little data and a great deal of mis-information about vitamin D. Caucasians have a variety of skin types and melanin production. This pilot study is unfunded and we know that there is extreme heterogeneity among Caucasians in their absorption of UVB and subsequent synthesis of vitamin D. Among our volunteers 2 participants with Hispanic ethnicity are represented as well. Darker-skinned individuals, such as African Americans, produce considerably less vitamin D, based on the bone health literature. Inclusion of African Americans will be critical in the future as we develop our understanding of the relationship between vitamin D and UV exposure. Our collaborator, Elizabeth Jacobs at the University of Arizona, is currently conducting a pilot study to evaluate UV and serum vitamin D among individuals with darker pigmentation. The motivation for our pilot study has to do with the balance between vitamin D and sun exposure as a risk-benefit assessment for the development of melanoma. Asians and African Americans do develop melanoma, but at a rate ten times less than Caucasians and it does not appear to be related to sun exposure; thus, to include them at this time would not allow us to focus on the medically-related issue.

You may not qualify if…

• Diet high in oily fish (e.g. eating cod liver or sardines oil conserved products more than 2-3 times/week)
• Oral vitamin D supplementation (over 1,000 IU/day amount)
• Tanning bed use.
• Existing pregnancy

Where it is running

• Universtiy of New Mexico - Cancer Center — Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

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