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ArticleThe lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology2019

Vitamin D supplementation and musculoskeletal health.

Heike A Bischoff-Ferrari, E John Orav, Lauren Abderhalden, Bess Dawson-Hughes, Walter C Willett

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Article in The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Effects of vitamin D3, omega-3s, and a simple home exercise program on incident vertebral fractures: the DO-HEALTH randomized controlled trial.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2025
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  9. The Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation on Musculoskeletal Health: The VITAL and DO-Health Trials.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2023
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  14. Nutritional Supplements and Skeletal Health.Current osteoporosis reports · 2021
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  15. Weather Conditions and Outdoor Fall Injuries in Northwestern Russia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Heike A Bischoff-FerrariDepartment of Geriatrics and Aging Research, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Zurich 8091, Switzerland. Electronic address: Heike.Bischoff@usz.ch.
E John OravDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Lauren AbderhaldenDepartment of Geriatrics and Aging Research, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Zurich 8091, Switzerland.
Bess Dawson-HughesJean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.
Walter C WillettDepartment of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Vitamin DVitamin D DeficiencyDietary SupplementsHumansVitamin D

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