Vitamin D and calcium: a systematic review of health outcomes.

What It Covers

The paper reports a study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc, published as a systematic review.

To systematically summarize the evidence on the relationship between vitamin D, calcium, and a combination of both nutrients on a wide range of health outcomes as identified by the IOM, AHRQ and technical expert panel convened to support the project.

Why It Was Studied

Since the 1997 Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) values for vitamin D and calcium were established new data have become available on their relationship, both individually and combined, to a wide range of health outcomes.

The Institute of Medicine/Food and Nutrition Board has constituted a DRI committee to undertake a review of the evidence and potential revision of the current DRI values for these nutrients.

Who the Included Studies Covered

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were adults, both men and women.

What Was Measured

Since the 1997 Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) values for vitamin D and calcium were established new data have become available on their relationship, both individually and combined, to a wide range of health outcomes.

MEDLINE; Cochrane Central; Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; and the Health Technology Assessments; search limited to English-language articles in humans.

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Calcium, Dietary, Nutritional Requirements, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic and Vitamin D.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is a systematic review of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

The abstract goes on to report its results in about 2 sentences; this page does not restate them, so read the paper for the findings and their limits.

The publication is from 2009 (Evidence report/technology assessment), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.