Vitamin D Against Type 1 Diabetes

Filed in archive Diet , Research , Treatment on March 13, 2008

Supplementation of oral Vitamin D can protect against the development of type 1 diabetes in kids.

Such were the findings of a new meta-analysis.

According to data from five observational studies, infants who received vitamin D supplements were 29 per cent less likely to develop type-1 diabetes than non-supplemented infants, reports the review in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

"However, for concrete conclusions to be reached, adequately powered, randomised controlled trials with long periods of follow-up would be required to establish causality and the best formulation, dose, duration and period of supplementation," cautioned Christos Zipitis from the NHS Foundation Trust (Stockport) and Anthony Akobeng from the Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals.

WAIT A MINUTE...

Isn't type 1 diabetes has much to do with genetics as it is with the non-supplementation of Vitamin D in infants?

I'm getting confused!

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