Vitamin D3 and Reduced Autism Risk

• High-dose vitamin D3 supplementation in pregnancy and risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in the children at age 10: A randomized clinical trial.

  • 2024-02
  • RCT · n = 591
  • The American journal of clinical nutrition 119(2)
  • • Kristina Aagaard
    • Jens Richardt Møllegaard Jepsen
    • Astrid Sevelsted
    • David Horner
    • Rebecca Vinding
    • Julie Bøjstrup Rosenberg
    • Nicklas Brustad
    • Anders Eliasen
    • Parisa Mohammadzadeh
    • Nilofar Følsgaard
    • María Hernández-Lorca
    • Birgitte Fagerlund
    • Birte Y Glenthøj
    • Morten Arendt Rasmussen
    • Niels Bilenberg
    • Jakob Stokholm
    • Klaus Bønnelykke
    • Bjørn H Ebdrup
    • Bo Chawes

  • PubMed: 38072183
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.12.002

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Autism Risk

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Pregnant Women

  High-dose vitamin D3 supplementation was not associated with risk of autism or ADHD.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  2800 IU/day