Interview: Vitamin D Supplementation Doesn't Prevent Fractures

NEJM Journal Watch General Medicine recently published a review of the VITAL trial results on vitamin D₃ supplementation in adults at average risk for fractures. In a new conversation with Joe Elia (narrator of NEJM Journal Watch's Clinical Conversations podcast), Dr. Allan Brett and Dr. Steven Cummings (who wrote the editorial on these findings in the New England Journal of Medicine), discuss aspects of the trial that are particularly relevant to practicing primary care clinicians. Dr. Brett is a general internist and Editor-in-Chief of NEJM Journal Watch General Medicine; Dr. Cummings is an expert on osteoporosis and an Emeritus Professor at the University of California San Francisco. Click for NEJM Journal Watch's coverage of the trial r…