Vitamin D Supplements Reduces Diabetes Risk in Children

Posted on March 13, 2008 in Latest News

Infants who get vitamin D supplements in early childhood have a lower risk of developing type-1 diabetes in later life, reports a small study.

The study was not a clinical trial. The researchers studied the data from 5 studies that looked for differences between children who got type-1 diabetes and children who did not.

Evidences of the study showed that infants who get additional vitamin D supplements reduce the risk of type-1 diabetes by 29% in later life than those who don’t get.

The findings of the study published today in the journal ‘Archives of Disease in Childhood’ also suggest that the early children start taking vitamin D supplements the more they protected against later development of the disease.

The researchers report that extensive clinical trials are necessary to prove the fact.

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