Pages tagged with "Seniors"
- Can vitamin D improve quality of life for seniors with heart failure -2010
- Half of Canadian elderly achieved 30 ng with just 560 IU
- Vitamin D prevents and predicts fractures - no abstract
- Elderly with less than 15 ng were 3.7X more frail
- Vitamin D deficiency was the best predictor of older patient death in hospital
- Patients older than 65 needed 5,000 IU vitamin D daily
- Senior women with less than 20 ng vitamin D were 2X more likely to become depressed
- Possible reduction in nocturia, nighttime urination, or BPH after taking vitamin D
- Vitamin D repletion = 2000 IU daily for adults and 5000 IU daily for seniors
- Table of outcomes for seniors vs vitamin D level
- No longer easily bruised: due to vitamins, probably vitamin D
- Bald head offers no vitamin D advantage
- Novel treatment approaches to cachexia and sarcopenia:
- Overview Seniors and Vitamin D