In Brief: Vitamin D study
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Vitamin D study: Shows that supplementation with 400 IU vitamin D3 in 2,578 Dutch men and women over a three and a half-year period did not decrease the incidence of hip and other peripheral fractures. To be published in the Feb. 14 Annals of Internal Medicine, the placebo-controlled study included subjects 70 years of age or older. The authors are Paul Lips, MD, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, et al...