Vitamin D Supplements Do Not Improve Your Bone Health

New study highlights that taking vitamin D supplements does not improve your bone health. The findings of the study are published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology journal.//

Intake of Vitamin D supplements does not prevent fractures or falls, or improve bone mineral density in adults, especially in women, claimed a new Lancet study.

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‘Vitamin D supplementation does not prevent fractures, falls or improve bone mineral density. Therefore, taking vitamin D supplements whether at a high or low dose does not improve your overall bone health.’
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Vitamin D supplements have long been recommended for older people to treat or prevent osteoporosis -- a bone loss condition -- with some early evidence suggesting benefits for bone health.

However, the study found no clinically meaningful effect of vitamin D supplementation on total fracture, hip fracture, or falls.

There was reliable evidence that vitamin D does not reduce total fractures, hip fractures, or falls by 15 percent -- a clinically meaningful threshold.

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Even when lower thresholds were assessed, there was still reliable evidence that vitamin D does not reduce falls by 7.5 percent and total fractures by 5 percent.

The differences in the effects of higher versus lower doses of vitamin D.

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"Our analysis finds that vitamin D does not prevent fractures, falls or improve bone mineral density, whether at a high or low dose. Clinical guidelines should be changed to reflect these findings," said lead author Mark J. Bolland from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

"On the strength of existing evidence, we believe there is little justification for more trials of vitamin D supplements looking at musculoskeletal outcomes," Bolland added.

Little Effect on the Risk of Falls Among Older People With Intake of Vitamin D Supplements
No evidence has been observed to back up the theory that vitamin D supplements prevent falls among older people as suggested by researchers.

In the study, the team pooled data from 81 randomized controlled trials. Most included women aged over the age of 65 (77 percent of trials) who lived in the community and who received daily doses of more than 800 IU per day (68 percent of trials).

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