Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Fractures

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Rebecca D. Jackson · The Ohio State University

Andrea Z. LaCroix

Shirley A.A. Beresford

Henry R. Black

Patricia Lanoie Blanchette

Denise E. Bonds

Robert L. Brunner

Abstract

Among healthy postmenopausal women, calcium with vitamin D supplementation resulted in a small but significant improvement in hip bone density, did not significantly reduce hip fracture, and increased the risk of kidney stones. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00000611.).

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Vitamin D Research Studies Bone health and osteoporosis research Microscopic Colitis

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Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 354, Issue 7, pp. 669-683

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa055218

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Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Fractures

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