A clinical trial showed that healthy middle-aged people do not need a lot of vitamin D to prevent osteoporosis or fractures in old age.
According to foreign media such as CNN on the 28th (local time), a research team from Bringham and Women’s Hospital in the US published a paper in the medical journal ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ (NEJM) on the same day to use vitamin D to prevent fractures when healthy. It was found that ingestion had no significant effect.
So far, vitamin D intake has been widely recommended for bone health, but research overturns this common sense.
The researchers divided 25,871 adult males and females living in 50 US states into a vitamin D3 group and a placebo group, respectively, and followed clinical changes over regarding five years. The subjects consisted only of healthy people who had not been diagnosed with osteoporosis or vitamin D deficiency.
As a result of the study, the treatment group took 2000 IU (International Unit) of vitamin D3 daily, but compared to the non-treated group, there was no significant difference in the prevention of hip, wrist, or pelvic fracture risk. Specifically, fracture symptoms occurred in 769 out of 12,927 people who took the vitamin, which was not significantly different from 782 out of 12,944 people who took the placebo drug.
However, there are exceptions when vitamin D intake is absolutely necessary. While it is not common for the general public to reach a vitamin D deficiency, the researchers emphasized that vitamin D intake is necessary if you suffer from celiac disease (chronic dyspepsia) or Crohn’s disease, a type of digestive system disease.
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