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- Title
Preventing fractures among older people living in institutional care: a pragmatic randomised double blind placebo controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation.
- Authors
Lyons, R A; Johansen, A; Brophy, S; Newcombe, R G; Phillips, C J; Lervy, B; Evans, R; Wareham, K; Stone, M D
- Abstract
Osteoporotic fractures in older people are a major and increasing public health problem. We examined the effect of vitamin D supplementation on fracture rate in people living in sheltered accommodation.
- Publication
Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2007, Vol 18, Issue 6, p811
- ISSN
0937-941X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00198-006-0309-5