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TrialThe Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism2025

Weight Loss Induces Changes in Vitamin D Status in Women With Obesity But Not in Men: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Rune Holt et al.PubMed ↗Full text ↗Publisher ↗

  • Further weight loss during the 52 weeks of interventionlooks bad hereHigher serum 25 D.Correlation only, not a test of it.

What moved togetherboth groups pooled, not the treatment’s effect

Correlation, not cause

Further weight loss during the 52 weeks of intervention went with higher serum 25 D

+14.0+6.00 to +22.0

further weight loss during the 52 weeks of intervention vs regaining weight, in women

As reported

difference 14, 95% CI 6.00–22.0

+2 more in the walkthrough ↓

Who was studied, and how

215people in the Synergy Effect of the Appetite Hormone GLP-1 trial, from 2016
195of them with obesity, in this paper

Already taking further weight loss during the 52 weeks of intervention, or nottheir own situation, not assigned

on further weight loss during the 52 weeks of intervention
regaining weight

Further weight loss during the 52 weeks of intervention went with higher serum 25 D+14.0

correlation, not a test

the abstract, start to end

D (25(OH)D) in both women and men [12 nmol/L (95% confidence interval [CI] 9-15) and 13 nmol/L (95% CI 8-17); P < .001

compared with women regaining weight [14 nmol/L (95% CI 6-22); P =

← favours treatmentfavours comparator →
could be chance
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D)low-calorie diet-induced weight loss, in women
129.00–15.0
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D)low-calorie diet-induced weight loss, in men
138.00–17.0
Serum 25(OH)Dfurther weight loss during the 52 weeks of intervention vs regaining weight, in women
146.00–22.0
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