A new study, to be published in the journal Pain Medicine, found that people with fibromyalgia tended to be deficient in vitamin D. The results also indicated that treatment with high-dose vitamin D3 resulted in significant improvement of most fibromyalgia symptoms.
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This Saudi Arabian study looked at 30 female patients with an average age of 34.5 who were diagnosed with fibromyalgia according to the new clinical fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria.
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