Vitamin D fails to improve glucose homeostasis in prediabetes, type 2 diabetes

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In patients with prediabetes or diet-treated type 2 diabetes, an 8-week regimen of high-dose vitamin D does not appear to confer any significant benefits to beta-cell function, insulin sensitivity or glycemic control, according to recent findings.

Henrik Wagner,
a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and colleagues evaluated 44 patients with prediabetes or diet-treated type 2 diabetes recruited from the Stockholm Diabetes Prevention Program to determine the effect of high-dose vitamin D3 treatment on beta-cell function,insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance.

Participants were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups: vitamin D3 30,000 IU administered orally once a week (n = 21) or matching placebo oil (n = 22). Initial dosing was given at the randomization visit, the fifth dose was administered at the half-time assessment and the participants took the remaining six doses at home.

http://www.healio.com/endocrinology...se-homeostasis-in-prediabetes-type-2-diabetes
 
Hang on. They say the study included 44 people, but 21 were given vitamin D3 and 22 the placebo. That makes 43 according to my maths (I presume one dropped out).
 
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