Vitamin D supplementation and aspecific musculoskeletal disorders

Completed

• Conditions: Aspecific musculoskeletal disorders, vitamin D supplementation; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Aspecific musculoskeletal disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN54027991
• Lead Sponsor: Individual sponsor (Netherlands)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-06-27
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

1. Asian and African men and women, visiting their general practitioner
2. Aged 18 to 60 years
3. Greater than thirteen weeks aspecific musculoskeletal disorders (i.e., musculoskeletal complaints without a specific cause like:
3.1. Trauma or infection, or
3.2. Localisation (like gonarthrosis), or
3.3. Complex of symptoms (like Herniated Nucleus Pulposus [HNP], Polymyalgia rheumatica).
Included are for instance low-back pain, fibromyalgia, fasciitis plantaris. Depression is NOT an exclusion criterion
4. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OH-D) level less than 50 nmol/ml

Exclusion Criteria

1. Pregnancy
2. Vitamin D supplementation in the last four months
3. Rachitis
4. Renal insufficiency
5. Sarcoidosis
6. Tuberculosis (TBC)
7. Peanut allergy
8. Use of cyclosporins, statins or oral steroids

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified