Pages tagged with "Falls and Fractures"
- Vitamin D improves muscle strength, reduces falling, and reduces frailty – review
- 800 IU of vitamin D does not prevent falls (nope, need at least 2,000)
- Frequent falls in nursing home more likely due to drug haze than low vitamin D
- Hip fracture outcome 5X more likely to be poor if low vitamin D
- Falls not prevented by vitamin D given every 3 months or less often – meta-analysis
- Vitamin D prevents falls – majority of meta-analyses conclude – meta-meta analysis
- Vitamin D and fractures – 24 meta-analyses and counting
- Falls are prevented by vitamin D - provided you get enough
- Save 2 billion dollars annually in fractures if take Vitamin D and Calcium – Frost and Sullivan
- Bone fracture in children 1.8 X more likely if born in winter (low vitamin D)
- Hip replacement 2X more likely if hip bone surgery was during winter (low vitamin D)
- Reduce chance of falling with 800 IU of vitamin D - European Food Safety Authority
- More aged are falling - even age-adjusted
- Seniors need at least 4,000 IU vitamin D, no test needed – Consensus
- UK would save as least 636 million dollars annually by giving 800 IU vitamin D free to all seniors
- Hip fracture – not getting enough vitamin D – 2013
- Bone fractures reduced by a minimum of 800 IU vitamin D and Calcium – meta-meta-analysis
- Fractures reduced with any amount of vitamin D and some Calcium - Cochraine
- Vitamin A increases risk of fracture if too much or too little – meta-analysis
- Fallers often had less than 20 ng of vitamin D – meta-analysis