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Special Report - Special Report - July 19, 2012
Higher Vitamin D doses found to reduce fractures
Older adults in analysis benefited from intake well above standard minimums

Newswise

Higher doses of Vitamin D might be beneficial in reducing bone fractures in seniors, a researcher says, citing the results of a pooled analysis of 11 unrelated, randomized clinical trials investigating vitamin D supplementation and fracture risk in more than 31,000 older adults.

As part of the study, published earlier this month in The New England Journal of Medicine, senior author Dr. Bess Dawson-Hughes and colleagues divided the subjects into quartiles ranging from 0 to 2,000 int...


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