Sufficient vitamin D levels may improve foot pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis

Vitamin D supplementation and the maintenance of sufficient vitamin D levels may improve foot pain in patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to study results published in Arthritis Care & Research.

The objective of the post-hoc analysis from a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (Vitamin D Effect on Osteoarthritis Study; ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01176344) was to assess the potential benefits of vitamin D supplementation and the maintenance of sufficient vitamin D levels for foot pain in patients with symptomatic knee OA. | READ THE FULL STORY