Pages tagged with "Falls and Fractures"
- Increase in children with low vitamin D and with tibia fractures during COVID
- Perhaps higher risk of fracture if low BMD plus low vitamin D
- More hip fractures if low vitamin D (2.1X in case-controlled studies) – meta-analysis
- Falls not decreased by 60,000 IU Vitamin D monthly (not a news item) – RCT
- Less than 3 percent of hip fracture patients prescribed enough Vitamin D to make a difference (Malta in this case)
- Recommends vitamin D after hip fracture ( but not enough and no-bone building cofactors)
- Bone healing not improved by a single bolus dose of 30,000 IU (no surprise) – RCT
- Belgian Hospital standard of care – test all orthopedic patients for low Vitamin D
- Bone density improved by monthly 50,000 IU of vitamin D for 6 months – RCT
- Yet another low Vitamin D health problem with increased COVID-19 risks (Vertebral Fracture)
- Increased risk of fracture if high level of Vitamin D (if continue to take Calcium) – umbrella analysis of meta-analyses
- Falls are the second largest cause of accidental death in the world (Vitamin D not mentioned)
- Increasing Vitamin D in aged care facilities to more than 800 IUs did not reduce falls
- Bone increased : Stiffness (Vitamin D), Flexibility (Vitamin K2)
- Forearm fractures in children having low Vitamin D had 3.8 X higher risk of surgery
- Risk factors for death after hip fracture surgery – 7 of the 8 are associated with low vitamin D
- Call to action: Vitamin D to prevent of treat hip fracture (50,000 weekly for 8 weeks, then bi-weekly) – Holick
- 3.5 X higher risk of death 2 years after hip fracture surgery if low vitamin D
- Hip fractures not prevented by Vitamin D (800 IU daily or large quarterly or annual doses) – meta-analysis
- Low trauma bone fractures in seniors – considering Vitamin D loading dose for all, without testing