A new randomized controlled trial offers no support for the use of increasingly popular vitamin D supplements to prevent cardiovascular disease or reduce mortality. But the trial, published in JAMA Cardiology, is also not the last word on the subject and leaves open the possibility that vitamin D may be found beneficial in the future…
Study Suggests Vitamin D Can’t Prevent Diabetes
October 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A vitamin D pill can’t substitute for a healthy diet and sunshine, a new genetic study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology suggests. In recent years many people have been seduced by observational studies that found low levels of vitamin D in people who developed type 2 diabetes. The new study instead suggests that the association is not…
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