Pages tagged with "Seniors"
- Lack of vitamin D may result in elderly physical decline
- Frailty and vitamin D – U shaped curve
- Just 700 IU of vitamin D and 700 mg of Calcium reduces falls and fractures
- Vitamin D2 intervention increased elderly muscle strength
- Vitamin D in elderly Irish with 800 IU did not vary with season
- Frailty and Vitamin D – with influence diagram Miller
- Elderly low on vitamin D were 2X more likely to die
- Vitamin D improves muscle strength if deficient – meta-analysis
- Many articles on Senior depression - 35 percent with less than 10 ng
- Overweight and elderly both sunbathe less - 2009
- Meta-analysis of RCT – vitamin D might increase senior muscle function
- Low vitamin D in elderly women associated with being heavier and less active
- Elderly men lacking vitamin D tend to be depressed
- Elderly women with vitamin D under 20 ng had more medical comorbidities
- Elderly often trapped in vitamin D vicious circles
- Reducing fracture risk with calcium and 800 IU of vitamin D
- BC elderly median 400 IU only only 3 percent exceed 2000 IU vitamin D
- Vitamin D supplementation in a nursing home population – min 2000 IU
- UK elderly need vitamin D – 86 percent less than 30 ng
- 50 percent more elderly deaths when vitamin D under 18 ng or over 40 ng