Evaluating Vitamin D Content in Mushrooms
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Vitamin D Deficiency
In brief
This study will evaluate how much vitamin D is present in a mushroom supplement. This supplement contains an extract from mushrooms that have been exposed to sunlight. The mushroom supplement will be compared to non-commercially available vitamin D supplements produced in a Goo Manufacturing Practices (GMP)-licensed facility.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01815437
- Run by
- Boston University
- People needed
- 80
- Starts
- 2012-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-03-27
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 64. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- All healthy adults, male and female, age 18-64 years
You may not qualify if…
- Currently taking, or having taken less than one month prior to start of study, a prescription of 50,000 IU of vitamin D2 or 2000 IU vitamin D2 or vitamin D3
- Allergy to mushrooms
- History of elevated calcium (>10.4 mg%)
- Patients with a current or recent history of severe, progressive, and/or uncontrolled renal, hepatic, hematological, endocrine, pulmonary, cardiac, neurological, or cerebral disease.
- Supplementation with over the counter formulations of vitamin D2 or vitamin D3
- Subjects with a history of an adverse reaction to orally administered vitamin D.
- Subjects who are taking oral Dilantin or glucocorticoids.
- Exposure to a tanning bed or tanning on a beach for more than eight hours with no sunscreen within 2 weeks prior to start of study.
- History of intestinal malabsorption (i.e. cystic fibrosis, fat malabsorption syndrome, Crohn's Disease, gastric bypass surgery).
- Subjects with any other condition which in the Investigator's judgment would make the patient unsuitable for inclusion in the study.
Where it is running
- Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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