Vitamin
D Pills: An Objection
Vitamin
D is a key component for healthy bones, teeth and muscles. It is produced
naturally when the skin is exposed to sunlight or derived from foods such as
oily fish, egg yolk and cheese. Previous research had shown significant effect
of Vitamin D on preventing heart attack, stroke, cancer or bone fractures.
But
the new study by Mark Bolland, University of Auckland - New Zealand, published
in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology
strengthens arguments that Vitamin D deficiency is usually the result of ill
health, not the cause of it.
There are some similar studies: In March 2013, British
scientists, in a comparison of 4,000 women, found that vitamin D supplements
taken in pregnancy made no difference to the child's bone health. And in
September 2012, researchers at New York's Rockefeller University saw no
evidence that vitamin D supplements lowered cholesterol, a factor in heart
disease, at least over the short term.
These studies conclude there is “little justification” for physicians to
prescribe Vitamin D supplements as a preventive measure for heart attack,
stroke, cancer or bone fractures.
Jaseem
Sabith K
Sr.
Lecturer
Dept.
of Pharmacy Practice
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