Research

Micronutrients & recovery

There is no highly convincing evidence of a clear role of vitamin D for any health outcome, as observational associations often fail to replicate in randomised controlled trials.

Do not expect Vitamin D supplements to prevent chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease, or diabetes based on current high-quality evidence. It is important for basic health, but supplementation for disease prevention is not strongly supported.

StrongRefutesVERY_HIGH confidence
highly convincing evidence of a clear role of vitamin D does not exist for any outcome
Evropi Τheodoratou et al. · BMJ · 2014

Why this rating

Umbrella review of 107 systematic reviews and 74 meta-analyses of observational studies and 87 meta-analyses of RCTs.

Source

Vitamin D and multiple health outcomes: umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies and randomised trials

Evropi Τheodoratou et al. · BMJ · 2014

Meta-analysis · 268 studiesCited 974×
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