A study of tracking 25,800 men and women in the United States
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeong Bit-na = Foreign media such as CNN reported on the 28th (local time) that a healthy middle-aged person does not need to consume a lot of vitamin D to prevent osteoporosis or fractures in old age.
A research team at Bringham and Women’s Hospital in the United States said in a paper published on the same day in the medical journal ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ (NEJM) that taking vitamin D to prevent fractures while in good health 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.
Although it is not common for the general public to become deficient in vitamin D, the researchers note 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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