Taking higher-than-recommended doses of vitamin D for five years reduced the risk of atrial fibrillation in older men and women, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.
This study is interesting because Vitamin D has largely been shown not to have any impact in many other factors when it has been tested in randomized double blind trials with placebo control. e.g. Vitamin D is (largely) a placebo. This study actually shows in one of these trials that Vitamin D is effective over a placebo for AFib. I’d be interested to learn more about the mechanism that allows Vitamin D to help and if this study can be reproduced.
Here is a good segment from MedLifeCrisis about Vitamin D in general
This study is interesting because Vitamin D has largely been shown not to have any impact in many other factors when it has been tested in randomized double blind trials with placebo control. e.g. Vitamin D is (largely) a placebo. This study actually shows in one of these trials that Vitamin D is effective over a placebo for AFib. I’d be interested to learn more about the mechanism that allows Vitamin D to help and if this study can be reproduced.
Here is a good segment from MedLifeCrisis about Vitamin D in general