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