Effect of Calcium/Vitamin D Supplementation on Body Weight and Fat Loss.

Phase 4 Completed 80 enrolled Laval University Wyeth is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer · collab

RandomizedParallel-groupDouble-blindTreatment

Summary

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of calcium/vitamin D supplementation (Caltrate 600 +D®) on body weight loss during a weight-reducing program

Timeline

Start: 2003-01
Primary completion: —
Completion: 2005-07

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper The calcium+D supplementation induced no statistically significant increase in fat mass loss in response to the programme. PMID 19263591 ↗

Publications

Major GC, Alarie FP, Dore J, Tremblay A. Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and fat mass loss in female very low-calcium consumers: potential link with a calcium-specific appetite control. Br J Nutr. 2009 Mar;101(5):659-63. doi: 10.1017/s0007114508030808.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Calcium	Small molecule	600 mg	—
Subject	Vitamin D	Other / unclassified	5 ug	—