Vitamin D-containing supplementation and depressive symptom severity in adults: A Bayesian systematic review and evidence-structure assessment
Xu G, Hu T, Zhang C, Kang M, Fang Y, Jiang Y, Gao Z, Wan X, Gao B
Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 0 citas
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- Publicado
- 2026-08-03 · Clin Nutr · vol. 64 · pág. 106751
- Editorial
- Elsevier BV
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- Referencias
- 25 trabajos
- Acceso
- De pago
- Áreas de investigación
- Vitamin D Research Studies · Vitamin C and Antioxidants Research · Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Palabras clave
- Vitamin, Depressive symptoms, Vitamin D and neurology, Depression (economics), Bayesian probability
- MeSH
- humans, vitamin d, severity of illness index, bayes theorem, depression, dietary supplements, adult, randomized controlled trials as topic
9 autores
- Guangru Xu🇨🇳Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Shuguang Hospital; Pudong New Area People's Hospital
- Tiantian Hu
- Chuanxia Zhang🇨🇳Pudong New Area People's Hospital
- Mengyuan Kang🇨🇳Pudong New Area People's Hospital
- Yuan Fang🇨🇳Anhui Medical University; Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University
- Yin Jiang
- Zhiyuan Gao🇨🇳Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Yueyang Hospital
- Xiaoxi Wan🇨🇳Pudong New Area People's Hospital
- Biao Gao
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Background & aims
Vitamin D supplementation has been proposed as a nutrition-related adjunctive strategy for depressive symptoms, but randomized evidence remains heterogeneous, and the feasibility of comparing multicomponent vitamin D-containing regimens is unclear. We evaluated the effects of vitamin D-containing supplementation on depressive symptom severity in adults and assessed whether the evidence structure supported network or component-level inference.
Methods
We searched PubMed, Embase, CENTRAL, ClinicalTrials.gov, and WHO ICTRP from inception to 15 April 2026. Randomized studies of vitamin D-containing nutritional interventions in adults with depressive disorders or clinically relevant depressive symptoms were included. The primary analysis was a Bayesian random-effects pairwise meta-analysis of endpoint depressive symptom scores in the oral vitamin D evidence layer. Frequentist endpoint and change-score analyses were used as robustness checks. Treatment-network connectivity and component estimability were assessed before any network or component network meta-analysis was attempted.
Results
Thirteen randomized studies published between 2013 and 2024 were retained. Seven studies with eight endpoint contrasts contributed to the Bayesian oral endpoint synthesis. Vitamin D-containing supplementation favored lower depressive symptom severity compared with comparators, with a posterior median SMD of -0.88 (95% credible interval, -1.38 to -0.35). Directional probabilities favored benefit, but between-study heterogeneity was substantial and posterior predictive intervals crossed the null. The treatment network was fragmented, and co-nutrient variation was sparse; therefore, formal network meta-analysis, treatment ranking, and component-level nutrient-synergy estimation were not methodologically defensible.
Conclusion
Vitamin D-containing supplementation shows a favorable but heterogeneous signal for depressive symptom severity in adults. Current randomized evidence supports cautious pairwise synthesis but not clinical treatment ranking or claims of incremental benefit from specific co-nutrients. Better replicated, vitamin D status-stratified, and component-informative trials are needed.
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