Vitamin D3 as a Gut-Soothing sidekick for IBD patients?
NCT ID NCT04225819
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether adding high-dose vitamin D3 to standard anti-TNF therapy can improve symptoms and reduce inflammation in people with active Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. About 100 adults starting anti-TNF treatment will receive either vitamin D3 or a placebo for 14 weeks. The goal is to see if vitamin D3 helps control the disease better than anti-TNF therapy alone.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 100 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2020
- Expected to finish
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Apr 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Established diagnosis of CD, UC, or IBD-unspecified * Initiating anti-TNF therapy for IBD within 2 weeks of baseline/randomization * Other non-anti-TNF IBD medications must remain stable during the treatment period with the exception of tapering of corticosteroids. * Recent (within 6 months) objective evidence of active IBD on colonoscopy along with elevated inflammatory markers (C-reactive protein \>8 mg/L or fecal calprotectin \>150 mcg/g) * Current disease activity defined as a Harvey Bradshaw index \> 4 at baseline (week 0) for CD subjects or Simple Clinical Colitis Activity Index \> 2 at baseline (week 0) for UC subjects. * Fecal Calprotectin level \>150 mcg/g Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to provide informed consent or unwilling or unlikely to comply with the requirements of the study. * Female subjects who are pregnant, lactating, or intending to become pregnant during the study period * Known intolerance or hypersensitivity to oral vitamin D3 supplementation * Plasma 25(OH)D \> 60 ng/mL * Known celiac disease or subjects with a positive screen for celiac disease (elevated tissue transglutaminase antibodies) * Serum calcium \>11 mg/dL * History of hyperparathyroidism * History of renal calculi or chronic kidney disease * Initiation of anti-TNF treatment for extra-intestinal symptoms alone * Evidence of untreated infection (e.g. Clostridium difficile) * History of chronic pancreatitis * History of cystic fibrosis * History of gastric bypass * Presence of stoma or J-pouch
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, United States
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