Pages tagged with "Falls and Fractures"
- Falls of elderly whites increasing 5 percent per year
- Diabetes increases the risk of bone fracture - many studies
- Only half of bone fracture patients were given treatment, the most popular being vitamin D
- Kaiser working to decrease hip and other fractures
- Risk of falls minimized with just 24 ng of vitamin D
- Fraser Health in Canada will be giving 20000 IU vitamin D weekly to reduce falls
- Chance of a fall decreased with vitamin D3 but increased with D2
- Vitamin D reduces falls – meta-analysis
- Active form of vitamin D (calcitriol) cut in half the fractures following organ transplant – meta-analysis
- 30 percent less chance of dying after hip fracture if take vitamin D and other drugs – 2011
- 2X more falls for senior men with less than 20ng of vitamin D
- Role of the orthopaedic surgeon in fragility fractures
- Majority of animal bone fractures healed more quickly with vitamin D
- Hip fracture patients had only 16 ng of vitamin D
- Most people with bone fractures still not getting vitamin D
- Having less than 25 ng of vitamin D was associated with severe hip fracture
- Low Vitamin D and Vitamin K: brittle bones and hardened arteries – LEF
- Fracture patients with bone diseases lacked vitamin D and calcium
- Hip fractures worse if very low on vitamin D
- Review of non-bone effects of vitamin D on fall prevention