Vitamin D Metabolites Are Associated With Musculoskeletal Injury in Young Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study
Main finding · Lower body overuse musculoskeletal injury incidenceResult — go to the resultOdds ratio 6.30 95% CI 1.89–21.2Study context
- Population
- Young adults (1637 men, 530 women; aged 22.6 ± 7.5 years; BMI 24.0 ± 2.6 kg/m²; 94.3% white) in initial military training during all seasons; serum vitamin D metabolites measured in week 11,637 men · 530 women
- Exposure
- Vitamin D metabolite quartiles/clusters
- Outcome
- Incidence of lower body overuse musculoskeletal and bone stress injury
- Follow-up
- 12 weeks of training
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Lower body overuse musculoskeletal injury incidence
Odds ratio
6.30
95% CI 1.89–21.2
P = 0.003
Lowest clustervs Highest cluster
OR 6.30 (95% CI 1.89–21.2); P = 0.003
- Sustained ≥1 overuse musculoskeletal injury
- 21.0%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
| Outcome | OR (95% CI) | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower body bone stress injury incidence · 12 weeks of trainingLowest clustervs Highest clusterAdjusted for the same covariates | 22.08 (3.26–149.4) | P = 0.001 | |
| 0.050.21520Odds ratio (log scale) |
- Lower body bone stress injury incidence — Sustained ≥1 bone stress injury
- 5.6%
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Original publication
Vitamin D Metabolites Are Associated With Musculoskeletal Injury in Young Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study. J Bone Miner Res. Published 30 August 2023. doi:10.
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