{"id":11058,"date":"2013-01-04T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2013-01-03T23:54:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T04:54:55","slug":"21-d-random-control-trials-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/21-d-random-control-trials-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"21 \u2018D\u2019 Random Control Trials in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vitamin D Council summarized 21 new random controlled trials about vitamin D published in 2012 on its web site this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRandomized controlled trials are considered the \u2018gold standard\u2019 of research because they can very strictly discern if an intervention (like vitamin D) has a causative effect versus just an association. And if there is an effect, what is the effect? Positive? Negative?\u201d the Council explained on its web site.<\/p>\n<p>The new RCT studies join thousands of clinical, observational and lab studies that have suggested positive effects of the sunshine vitamin. While some critics of vitamin D have suggested that more research needs to be done before people start checking their vitamin D levels, it should be noted, in comparison, that there are no random control trials showing that UV exposure in non-burning fashion is harmful, and yet dermatology has closed the books in its conclusions on UV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vitamindcouncil.org\/2012\/12\/31\/a-look-back-at-2012-a-few-key-randomized-controlled-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>To read the Vitamin D Council\u2019s post click here.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><em>SmartTan.com news articles regularly report medical and scientific information to keep you abreast of current events related to UV light. This information is not intended to be used by any party to make unwarranted health claims to promote sunbed usage. Indoor tanning businesses are obligated to communicate a fair and balanced message to all clients about your products and services including the potential risks associated with indoor tanning. Contact your Smart Tan representative to find out more about what you can and can&#8217;t say in your tanning salon business.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><em>\u00a9 2012 International Smart Tan Network. 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And if there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>21 \u2018D\u2019 Random Control Trials in 2012 - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Vitamin D Council summarized 21 new random controlled trials about vitamin D published in 2012 on its web site this week.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/21-d-random-control-trials-in-2012\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"21 \u2018D\u2019 Random Control Trials in 2012 - 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