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New study reveals shocking facts about vitamin D
A new study rebuts common facts on vitamin D’s usefulness in reducing the risk of fracture in the elderly and healthy adults.
Researchers at Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, found that taking vitamin D containing 2,000 units per day did not reduce general, vertebral, or hip fractures in adults and adults.
In the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the analysis showed that there were no effects of vitamin D on osteoporosis fractures, wrists, or pelvis in the sample studied and that there were no differences in the response to these supplements by men and women.
The effects also did not indicate any differences in the effects of vitamin D on the results of fractures according to race, body mass index, or age.
Sky News reported that “Overall, the results of this study do not support the use of vitamin D supplements to reduce fractures in healthy men and women.”
“The results do not apply to patients with severe vitamin D deficiency, low bone mass, osteoporosis, or elderly people,” Lipov added, according to the UPI news agency.
The effects were defined as somewhat surprising because researchers assumed that vitamin D would reduce total fractures and spinal and hip fractures.
The National Institutes of Health’s dietary supplement office says most people meet some of their vitamin D needs through vulnerability to sunlight, but consume less than recommended.
According to the National Institutes of Health, osteoporosis is often associated with inadequate calcium intake, but vitamin D deficiency contributes to this situation by reducing calcium absorption.
