Recent studies have found potential benefits of vitamin D in relieving pain, while the results from randomized controlled trials of vitamin D for fibromyalgia have been promising. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of vitamin D in the treatment of fibromyalgia.
PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases were systematically searched. The language used was limited to English. We selected only randomized controlled studies that reported vitamin D versus placebo-controlled cure for fibromyalgia. After extracting valid data, a meta-analysis was performed using Stata version 12.0. The major outcome in the pooled analysis was the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) changes in fibromyalgia patients before and after treatment. The pooled effects were analyzed as mean differences and 95% confidence intervals.
: Five studies including 315 participants were identified. These studies found that vitamin D was effective in reducing Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire scores compared with that in the control group, with significant differences (weighted mean difference = -7.82, 95% confidence interval: -12.05 to -3.59, P 0.05).
Data from randomized controlled studies suggest that vitamin D supplementation may be an effective fibromyalgia therapeutic approach.

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