Abstract
(1). It is also appreciated that the researcher has gone into the details of the study. The authors have rightly pointed out that vitamin D deficiency was more common in youth-onset diabetes (age less than 25 years) when compared with age, body mass index (BMI) and gender-matched healthy control population. Vitamin D deficiency was also found in healthy controls, but mean vitamin D was significantly lower in people with diabetes. We found that mean vitamin D levels were significantly lower when compared with healthy controls, but we did not demonstrate the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and development of diabetes, as it was not the mandate of the study. The author has rightly pointed out the difficulties in measuring vitamin D in blood samples. Compounds such as vitamin D, which are extremely hydrophobic, show many inherent difficulties for their measurement, also because there are two forms: viz 25(OH)D
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