Vitamin D and Increased 6-Minute Walk Test Distance

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  • 2025-06-09
  • Systematic Review
  • Frontiers in nutrition 12
  • • Jing Xu
    • Jia Li
    • Ya-Juan Sun
    • Wei Quan
    • Yi-Dan Qin
    • Jia Song
    • Jia-Jun Chen

  • PubMed: 40551732
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1500875

  4 Insights on

  • Increased 6-Minute Walk Test Distance

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  A statistically significant benefit of supplemental vitamin D was observed on 6-Minute walking test distance (WMD=24.85, 95% CI=[6.54, 43.16])

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes