Study: Omega-3 and Vitamin D3 Reduce the Risk of Autoimmune Diseases

According to the results of the study, the omega-3 fatty acid and vitamin D3 supplementation has been responsible for reducing the risk of the development of the autoimmune disease by 25 percent to 30 percent in the older people.

Due to the lack of the clinical data, the authors of the study has conducted a nationwide, double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled study for the purpose of determining the effect of the omega-3 and vitamin-D3 supplementation on the risk of developing the autoimmune disease.

From the month of November 2011 to the month of March 2014, the participants of the study had been randomly assigned for receiving the omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D3 supplements, and the treatment had been continued through the month of December 2017, and the decrease in the autoimmune diseases had been confirmed by the physicians and it has also been reported by the participants on annual basis.

The primary results of the study measure had been the autoimmune disease, which has been including the polymyalgia rheumatic, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and the autoimmune thyroid, and the researchers has also determined the individual in most of the common and probable autoimmune disease incidence, that has been served as the measures of the secondary results.

The study has included 25,871 participants, and out of the total participants, 71 percent have self-reported to be non-Hispanic White, 9 percent were other ethnic groups and 20 percent were black and 51 percent of the total participants were women.