A call to action: Vitamin D for hip fracture – Holick July 2020

Vitamin D can (no test needed)

1. Prevent hip fracture
2. Reduce the time to recover after hip fracture
3. Reduce the risk of death after hip fracture

Falls and Fractures category contains the following

• 219 items in FALLS and FRACTURES
• see also Overview Seniors and Vitamin D
• Overview Fractures and Falls and Vitamin D
• Deaths due to falls doubled in just a decade (age-adjusted, perhaps decreased vitamin D) – June 2019
• Preventing Falls in Older Adults – Vitamin D combination is the best - JAMA Meta-analysis Nov 2017
• Falls cut in half by 100,000 IU vitamin D monthly - RCT 2016
• Vitamin D prevents falls – majority of meta-analyses conclude – meta-meta analysis Feb 2015
• Vitamin D and fractures – 24 meta-analyses and counting – Dec 2014

Hip fracture

• Search Vitamin D Life for "HIP FRACTURE" 191 items not in PDF as of July 2020
• A call to action: Vitamin D for hip fracture – Holick July 2020
• Risk factors for death after hip fracture surgery – 7 of the 8 are associated with low vitamin D – Aug 2020
• 3.5 X higher risk of death 2 years after hip fracture surgery if low vitamin D – Jan 2020
• Hip fracture recovery best with home exercise plus Vitamin D – RCT Dec 2018
• Hip fracture 58 percent more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2017
• Fracture risk 40 percent higher risk if low Vitamin D - June 2019
• 1 in 3 died after hip fracture but only 1 in 14 if add Vitamin D and exercise – RCT April 2017