{"id":7584,"date":"2015-04-16T11:41:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T10:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=7584"},"modified":"2015-04-16T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T10:47:56","slug":"no-wonder-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2015\/04\/no-wonder-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"No wonder pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"firstwords\">\u201cIn the case of religion,\u00a0<\/span>we put our faith in gods. And in nutrition, we have vitamins,\u201d writes journalist Catherine Price in\u00a0<em>Vitamania,\u00a0<\/em>in which she traces vitamin crazes from the 1920s to the present.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2015\/05\/is-vitamin-d-a-wonder-pill\">Harvard Magazine<\/a>\u00a0reports about\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dana-farber.org\/Newsroom\/News-Releases\/new-study-shows-high-vitamin-D-levels-increases-survival-of-patients-with-metastatic-colorectal-cancer.aspx\">new cancer vitamin D study<\/a>. It includes\u00a0more than 1,000 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer but going into the details it is a phase 3 clinical trial of chemotherapy and NOT a clinical trial of vitamin D. Vitamin D serum levels are used for posthoc stratification only although we know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/348\/bmj.g2035\">these kind of studies are always misleading<\/a>. \u00a0At least\u00a0HM\u00a0quotes VITAL research Manson with<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clinical enthusiasm for supplemental vitamin D has outpaced available evidence on its effectiveness<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24614387\">the VDAART chairs<\/a> at \u00a0Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital would have a similar realistic assessment. Their<a href=\"http:\/\/grantome.com\/grant\/NIH\/R01-HL091528-06\">\u00a0results are overdue<\/a> with June 2014 ending of data collection for the primary outcome. Is it\u00a0just the\u00a0simple fact that vitamin D is not a wonder pill?<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the case of religion,\u00a0we put our faith in gods. And in nutrition, we have vitamins,\u201d writes journalist Catherine Price in\u00a0Vitamania,\u00a0in which she traces vitamin crazes from the 1920s to the present. Harvard Magazine\u00a0reports about\u00a0a new cancer vitamin D study. It includes\u00a0more than 1,000 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer but going into the details it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2015\/04\/no-wonder-pill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No wonder pill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1287],"class_list":["post-7584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunshine-vitamin","tag-vitamin-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7584"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7589,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions\/7589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}