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Re:High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness by fao_ on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:35PM (#16064273)
Interesting, because a paper was released early last year that reduced the RDI for vitamin D by about 1/2

"After re-measurement of vitamin D by improved technology, the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for vitamin D intake drops from 800 to 400 International Units (IU) per day, new research reports."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170403083103.h...

Re:High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness by naasking on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:47PM (#16064395)
Note the caveat at the end:

> "Remember, this RDA is for bone health only," Gallagher cautioned. "It may be different for other diseases. Although trials looking into cancer, diabetes, and other diseases are ongoing, we do not have information about this yet."

Re:High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:51PM (#16064427)
The actual RDA for Vitamin D is set based on bone health, since there is not sufficient data for other conditions it may effect, so that's not a significant caveat when it comes to a recommendation to change the RDA.
Re:High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness by fao_ on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:01PM (#16064499)
The RDI baseline is always set to bone health. It's an indicator for the general population, not people with illnesses that may increase their RDI amount.
Re:High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness by naasking on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:14PM (#16064628)
Except Vitamin D influences more than just bone health, and the recent research suggesting we should increase recommended dosages has centered on that.
Re:High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:49PM (#16064417)
No, it reduced what the same authors recommended the RDA should be based on the same researchers previous work by half, but that's only a reduction by a third from what the actual RDA is.
Re:High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness by fao_ on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:58PM (#16064475)
Please read the study. They tested at what the earlier study listed as a "correct" level of Vitamin D, and the tests showed that the lower amount was correct.

"The participants were randomized to one of seven vitamin D3 doses: 400, 800, 1600, 2400, 3200, 4000, 4800 IU/day or placebo, for 1 year, and all the women were given calcium supplements to maintain a total calcium intake."

Re:High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:12PM (#16064597)
> Please read the study

I did. The earlier study cited recommended the RDA should be 800, this study recommends 400; that cuts it by half from the earlier study.

The actual government issued RDA, now and at the time of the study, however, is 600, not 800, so it's only recommending the actual RDA be reduced by 1/3, not 1/2.