Study: Vitamin D May Lower Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes

A nurse teaches a diabetes patient how to do her own insulin injections. A new national survey shows Canadian diabetes patients are most concerned with blindness and amputations as major health complications resulting from the disease while doctors are more worried about heart and kidney failure. John Moore/Getty Images

A study published this week found that regular vitamin D supplementation may lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes among millions of adults who have prediabetes.

A team of researchers with the Tufts Medical Center found that taking the vitamin supplements has been associated with a 15 percent drop in the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes among those adults. Their study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Feb. 7.