D-Health: A randomised trial of vitamin D for prevention of cancer and mortality

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1046681

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

There is good evidence that vitamin D is important for maintaining healthy bones. There is now a body of work suggesting that it may play a role in other diseases such as cancer, but there is not yet sufficient information to warrant screening the population to determine their vitamin D levels or recommending routine supplementation. We plan to conduct a large-scale randomised placebo-controlled trial in which we will assess the effect of vitamin D supplementation on mortality, cancer incidence and many other common diseases such as diabetes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2013

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $2,930,705.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Preventive Medicine

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cancer | cardiovascular disease prevention | clinical trial | cognitive decline | diabetes prevention | mortality | vitamin D

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