• DOI:10.1111/obr.12162
Corpus ID: 8660739

Vitamin D supplementation and body weight status: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials

@article{Pathak2014VitaminDS,
  title={Vitamin D supplementation and body weight status: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials},
  author={K. Pathak and M. Soares and E. Calton and Y. Zhao and J. Hallett},
  journal={Obesity Reviews},
  year={2014},
  volume={15}
}

K. Pathak, M. Soares, +2 authors J. Hallett

Published 2014

Medicine

Obesity Reviews

Vitamin D is anticipated to have many extra‐skeletal health benefits. We questioned whether supplementation with the vitamin influenced body weight and composition. A systematic review and meta‐analysis was conducted on high‐quality, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that had supplemented vitamin D without imposing any caloric restriction. Eighteen trials reporting either body weight, body mass index (BMI), fat mass (FM), percentage fat mass (%FM) or lean body mass (LBM) met our criteria… CONTINUE READING

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