30 % of patients over 65 suffer from vitamin D defficiency. Use of supplements has been shown in several meta-analyses to be associated with risk reduction regarding all hip, non-spine and non-hip fractures.The important issue raised over the last couple of years is the safety of calcium supplements with vitamin D. A concern remains about the link between calcium supplements and coronary artery disease, but there is no clear mechanism for this association and the data is quite discrepant.
30 % of patients over 65 suffer from vitamin D defficiency. Use of supplements has been shown in several meta-analyses to be associated with risk reduction regarding all hip, non-spine and non-hip fractures.The important issue raised over the last couple of years is the safety of calcium supplements with vitamin D. A concern remains about the link between calcium supplements and coronary artery disease, but there is no clear mechanism for this association and the data is quite discrepant.
WCO-IOF-ESCEO, MILAN 2015
Critical evaluation of promising markers for sarcopenia
Main topics of the 15th WCO-IOF-ESCEO Congress
Phase 2 trial of myostatin antibody in weak older fallers
Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and cardiovascular safety
Vitamin D levels, calcium nutrition and risk of fracture
Repeated loading influences cortical bone geometry and strength
Nutritional management of osteoporotic patients
Osteoporosis therapy in high risk residents living in l.t. care homes
Blocking bone breakdown and stimulating new bone
Bloccare la distruzione dell'osso stimolando la neoformazione
Fracture risk prediction and its interaction with FRAX
How to control osteoporosis bone pain
Cost effectiveness evaluation of fracture liaison services, in Sweden - Emma Jonsson, BSc
Sclerostin inhibition for severe osteoporosis
