Time to Stop Recommending Vitamin D? - Frankly Speaking Ep 303

<p>Credits: 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™   CME/CE Information and Claim Credit: <a href='https://www.pri-med.com/online-education/podcast/frankly-speaking-cme-303'>https://www.pri-med.com/online-education/podcast/frankly-speaking-cme-303</a></p> <p>Overview: Millions of Americans take Vitamin D supplementation to prevent a variety of illnesses, from COVID-19 and osteoporosis to heart disease and cancer. While most studies have failed to show a benefit in preventing COVID-19, heart disease, and cancer, the evidence has been mixed, at best, in showing benefits for preventing bone fractures. Despite this, vitamin D supplementation remains popular for fracture prevention. Join us to review a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that failed to find any benefits for preventing fractures.</p> <p>Episode resource links:</p> <ul><li>N Engl J Med 2022;387:299-309. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2202106</li> </ul> <p>Guest: Robert A. Baldor MD, FAAFP   Music Credit: Richard Onorato</p>