Pages tagged with "Hip-Fracture"

• Hip fractures and low Vitamin D - many studies
• Hip fractures 60% more likely in people who drank a lot of milk - Greger
• Hip fracture risk was reduced by 4 times when Vitamin D was added to SERMS
• Hip fractures are predicted by 10 factors – low Vitamin D was the biggest risk
• Risk of Hip fracture cut in half if Vitamin D was prescribed
• Hip fractures requiring hospitalization cut in half by Vitamin K1 (100 mcg per day)
• More hip fractures if low vitamin D (2.1X in case-controlled studies) – meta-analysis
• 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)
• 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
• Warning - High intake of Vitamin B12 and B6 found to increase risk of hip fracture by 47 percent - 2019
• Following hip fracture 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily improved quality of life
• Hip fracture recovery best with home exercise plus Vitamin D – RCT
• Hip fractures rates have been increasing since 2012
• 1 in 3 died after hip fracture but only 1 in 14 if add Vitamin D and exercise – RCT
• Hip fracture 58 percent more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis
• Vitamin D and exercise after hip fracture surgery – far fewer deaths
• Hip Fracture 2.5 times more likely if poor Vitamin D Binding Protein gene