PapersPMID:22998754
A 12-week double-blind randomized clinical trial of vitamin D₃ supplementation on body fat mass in healthy overweight and obese women.
calciolNo finding here moved its endpoint.
What did not
1 findingHow to read these marks →- No detected effect on body mass
moderate
“In the vitamin D group, weight loss was (-0.3 ± 1.5 kg) whereas in the placebo group, it was (-0.1 ± 1.7 kg), differences were not statistically significant between the two groups.”
- Study
- RCT
- Duration
- 3 months
- Dose studied
- 25 ug/d as cholecalciferol tablet, once daily, 12 weeks, against lactose placebo
- Population
- Healthy overweight and obese women in Tehran, Iran, BMI 25 or above, aged 18-50 years, per-protocol completers
Study record
- Design
- randomised controlled trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- apparently healthy overweight and obese women (BMI 25 kg/m2 or more) in Tehran, Iran
- Participants
- 77
- Comparator
- placebo
- Duration
- 84 days
- Endpoints measured
- 41