Vitamin D Help For Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Doubted In NIH-Backed Study
Executive Summary
Clinical trial found that by two and a half years, a cohort of subjects who took 4,000 IU vitamin D daily were not at significantly lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than a placebo group, dampening hopes from previous studies suggesting it could lower risk up to a third.
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