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High dosage vitamin D unlikely to prevent cancer or heart attacks

Would be interesting to compare to people with low vitamin D blood levels

14-Nov-2018

Key points from article :

Study tested more than 25,000 adults over the age of 50 in the US over 5 years.

Randomised controlled trial (RCT) of high-dose (50mcg) vitamin D.

No difference in the number of people who developed cancer or cardiovascular disease.

No different in deaths from any cause.

These chronic diseases can take a long time to develop.

Most people had vitamin D levels above the recommended level at start of study.

The study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

Graduate medical school of Harvard University

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Education of new generations of global health leaders

The New England Journal of Medicine

Scientific Journal devoted to medical research

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Vitamin D