Vitamin D

BOSTON — Among nearly 500 patients with psoriasis in the United States, lower vitamin D levels in blood samples were associated with increasing psoriasis severity, according to research presented at NUTRITION.

Adults diagnosed with Graves’ disease who received vitamin D supplementation had a similar remission rate as people who did not receive a supplement, according to a study published in Thyroid.

A large trial of older adults found a reduction in cardiovascular events after vitamin D supplementation compared with placebo, a result that was inconsistent with previous studies, according to researchers.

Higher vitamin D intake and serum 25(OH)D levels may provide significant benefits for cancer incidence and mortality, according to the results of a meta-meta-analysis published in Nutrients.

In a trial of more than 20,000 older adults, vitamin D supplementation trended toward reducing risk for major CV events in older adults compared with placebo, a finding differing from previous studies.

PHILADELPHIA — Multiple studies report associations between low blood vitamin D level and worse CV health, but supplements are likely not the answer for many patients, according to a speaker.

Adults diagnosed with COVID-19 who had long COVID at a 6-month follow-up had lower vitamin D levels than COVID-19 survivors without long COVID, according to data published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

SEATTLE — Most adults with hypoparathyroidism no longer needed calcium or vitamin D supplementation after initiating a once-daily active parathyroid hormone drug, according to a speaker.

Vitamin D administered during winter to a cohort of patients with psoriasis in Norway failed to best placebo in disease severity score, according to a study.

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