Status:
COMPLETED
Evaluating Vitamin D Content in Mushrooms
Lead Sponsor:
Boston University
Conditions:
Vitamin D Deficiency
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-64 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
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 ...
Detailed Description
Mushrooms have the capability to produce vitamin D in a similar way to human skin. When exposed to ultraviolet light, mushrooms will convert a precursor to vitamin D. This reaction produces large amou...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- All healthy adults, male and female, age 18-64 years
Exclusion
- 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.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2012
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
80 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01815437
Start Date
January 1 2012
End Date
June 1 2013
Last Update
March 27 2017
Active Locations (1)
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Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02118