Vitamin D reduces mortality risk in elderly people by 6 pc

Washington, July 06 : A study has concluded that giving vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) to predominantly elderly women, mainly in institutional care, seems to increase survival. These women are likely to be vitamin D deficient with a significant risk of falls and fractures.
Until now there has been no clear view on whether there is a real benefit of taking vitamin D.
"A Cochrane meta-analysis published only a couple of years ago found that there was some evidence for benefit, but it could not find an effect on mortality. We were, however, aware that more trials had been published and wanted to assess the effects of vitamin D when you added all the data together," said Dr Goran Bjelakovic, who works at Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at the University of Nis, in Serbia and at The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group at The Copenhagen Trial Unit in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The eight-strong international team of researchers identified 50 randomised trials that together had 94,148 participants.
"Our analyses suggest that vitamin D3 reduces mortality by about 6 pc. This means that you need to give about 200 people vitamin D3 for around two years to save one additional life," said Bjelakovic. (Agencies)


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