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12700 IU daily vitamin D3 did not stop prediabetic minorities from becoming diabetic – June 2012

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

See also VitaminDWiki