Pages tagged with "Seniors"
- Vitamin D as get older: more D and less deficiency (UK Health Care workers)
- Elderly with low vitamin D were depressed, anxious, or stressed (Saudi Arabia)
- Vitamin D and Aging: Central Role of Immunocompetence – Carlberg
- Vitamin D deficient seniors in acute care were more agitated and disinhibited
- Predictors of low vitamin D: race, age, and BMI (confirmed now by Machine Learning)
- COVID senior pneumonia deaths: 50% if low Vitamin D and unvaccinated vs 16% if Vitamin D or vaccinated
- Seniors get about 4X less vitamin D from the sun or UVB
- Overactive bladder 4.4 X more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis
- Seniors need more Vitamin D (Geriatric Ward in this case)
- Elderly disability associated with low Vitamin D
- Extending Health Span is a better goal than extending Lifespan
- Menopause delayed and symptoms decreased by Vitamin D - many studies
- Some seniors in Germany had vitamin D levels of 34 ng without supplementation (seems unlikely)
- Pelvic Organ Prolapse after menopause 5.6 X more likely if low Vitamin D (weak muscles)
- Vitamin D levels in a nursing home (Austria)
- Death rate in nursing home cut in half by just discontinuing unneeded medications – trial
- Seniors 5.4 more likely to die if Vitamin D less than 15 ng (Mexico)
- Senior Cognition not improved by 2,000 IU Vitamin D avg.- RCT
- Menopause is earlier in black women (low vitamin D)
- Vitamin D Receptors in muscles decrease with age in those with Osteoporosis - 2018