Pages tagged with "Seniors"
- Vitamin D for older people (VDOP) trial, with 48,000 IU per month – RCT started Fall 2012
- Elderly lower limb muscle strength improved with Vitamin D supplementation - Meta-analysis
- Low Vitamin D breaks down muscle by interferring with protein - Editorial
- Frailty and low muscle mass both associated with low vitamin D
- Antibiotic use cut in half by elderly (over 70) after monthly 60,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT
- Muscle increased 17 percent in vitamin D insufficient elderly getting 4,000 IU for 4 months – RCT
- Seniors in Brazil do not have enough vitamin D, even in the summer
- 4.7X less likely to feed self in nursing home if vitamin D deficient
- Seniors were 2X more likely to have functional limitation in 3 years if vitamin D deficient
- Human grown hormone (IGF1) in seniors greatly increased with 7,000 IU of vitamin D
- Superbug (Clostridium difficile) 4.7X more of a problem if low vitamin D
- Sarcopenia and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (vitamin D not mentioned)
- Half of elderly care physicians in the Netherlands do not follow vitamin D guidelines – 2013
- Slow gait is 3.5X more likely with low vitamin D and high C-Reactive Protein
- More postural body sway in seniors associated with low vitamin D
- Older adults of diverse ancestry had similar vitamin D levels and were getting 1000 IU
- Seniors getting noon sun had 88 percent chance of having at least 30 ng of vitamin D
- Frailty Call to Action: Vitamin D is one of the action items
- Adult osteomalacia (rickets) pain in an individual relieved by vitamin D, etc.
- 80 percent of the characteristics of frailty associated with low vitamin D