Vitamin D fails diabetes test June 10, 2012, NATURE NEWS BLOG

Highlights of a clinical trial

• reported at the American Diabetes Association meeting
• Mayer Davidson, a diabetes researcher at Charles R, Drew University
• 88,865 IU D3 weekly for a year
• 70ng/mL.
• 100 participants all were either Latinos or African Americans diagnosed with ‘pre-diabetes’
• no change in rate of becoming diabetic by taking the Vitamin D

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Have not yet seen the study – but . . .

• Expect that the participants were very vitamin D deficient
• This study lacked a loading dose to fill up on vitamin D quickly
• Suspect that the blood levels of vitamin D did not rise much of the year
• The benefits of vitamin D to diabetes would not have started until the blood levels were above 40 ng

Clinical Trials for Diabetes and Vitamin D 140 listed as of June 2012

• This clinical trial

See also VitaminDWiki

• Overview Diabetes and vitamin D
• Overview Metabolic Syndrome and vitamin D
• Overview Obesity and Vitamin D
• Overview Loading Dose of vitamin D
• Overview Vitamin D Dose-Response