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The findings are based on 12,388 adult participants in the US National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center database who had normal cognition or mild cognitive impairment at the outset. A total of 4637 took vitamin D supplements, and 7751 did not.
After adjusting for age, sex, education, race, cognition, depression, and APOE4 status, vitamin D exposure was significantly associated with a lower incidence of dementia . They caution that the study has several limitations. They were no data on dose or duration of vitamin D exposure or baseline serum vitamin D levels."Clarifying exposure duration, dose-response relationships, and the role of vitamin D deficiency will be necessary to inform intervention studies," the researchers note.
"We know that people with low vitamin D are at higher risk of developing cognitive problems. That's been reproducible in multiple epidemiological studies. But if we take people with normal vitamin D levels and supplement with vitamin D, do we lower their risk of future cognitive impairment? I think that's where the controversy lies," Hajjar, who wasn't involved in the study, told Medscape Medical News.
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