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Thursday, August 14, 2008 --- 109 days ago http://www.nhs.uk/news/2008/08August/Pages/LowvitaminDlevelslinkedtomortality.as
| “D stands for 'death-defying' in the vitamin stakes” is the headline in the Daily Mail . A study has found that “people with low vitamin D levels are at greater risk of dying from all causes”. Those with the lowest levels were found to be at a “26 per cent extra risk of death after nine years” compared with those with the highest levels, the newspaper says. It reports that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) does only recommends a specific daily dose of vitamin D in people who are elderly, pregnant, Asian, get little sun exposure and eat no meat or oily fish; these people are advised to take 10 micrograms daily. These results come from a large observational study in the US. Although the study was well conducted, because of the way it was designed, it is not certain that increase in deaths seen was due to vitamin D levels. In the absence of definitive research indicating that taking extra vitamin D can reduce risk of death, it is advisable to try and maintain vitamin D levels naturally through diet and sensible sun exposure, and if you do take supplements, to follow the advice of the FSA. Where did the story come from? Dr Michal Melamed and colleagues from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and Johns Hopkins University carried out this research. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. It was published in the peer-reviewed medical journal: Archives of Internal Medicine . What kind of scientific study ... |
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