Daily dose of vitamin D can help prevent type 2 diabetes, say experts.
Researchers are carrying out a major clinical trial to confirm whether taking vitamin D can prevent or delay the condition, the Daily Express reported.
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Globalization and changing lifestyles has made diabetes very common in developing countries so much so that India is known as the Diabetes Capital of the World.
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They believe that the "sunshine vitamin" may reduce diabetes risk by 25 per cent.
The study led by Professor Philip Raskin, from UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, is a four-year trial across America which will track 2,500 people age 30 or older who have pre-diabetes.
They will be given daily doses of vitamin D about five times higher than usually recommended.
Source: ANI
They will be given daily doses of vitamin D about five times higher than usually recommended.
Source: ANI
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