Risk of fracture and bone loss if calcium supplements reduced the elderly

People over 50, either alone or calcium and vitamin D have a lower risk of 12% of fractures or bone loss than people who do not take them, says an article in The Lancet this week topic. Dr. Benjamin Tang, University of Western Sydney, Australia, and the team has conducted an analysis of 17 previous studies involving 52 625 people over 50 years. Each of them received treatment for an average of 3.5 years. The researchers found that patients maintained their risk of fractures of the correct dosage was 24% lower.They also found that high doses reduces the risk of fracture more than 1200 mg compared with doses below 1200 mg. Protection against fractures was also higher when vitamin D was also a dose of 800 international units (IU) or more, compared to lower doses.
The treatmenthad the greatest impact on those who were older, lived in institutions, weighed less, consumed little calcium, or were at high baseline risk than normal. The authors suggest that people in institutions can be successful with this treatment because nurses make sure they take their pills (better compliance). The researchers also examined 23 clinical studies that have examined bone density as a result. They found that calcium supplementation alone or in combination with vitamin D, also lowered the rate of bone loss at the hip with 0.54% and the backbone of 1.19%.
Our meta-analysis showed that calcium alone or in combination with vitamin D effective in treating osteoporosis preventive fracturepoor compliance is a major obstacle to obtaining all the benefits of calcium authorsconclude. Although most vitamin D is not shown to allow additional risk reduction on the use of calcium alone, there was a significant difference between the effects of different doses of vitamin D observed, they added.
Unlike previous meta-analysis, Tang provides clear answers to several questions, which is of immediate practical importance for the daily management of osteoporosisTang and could be the contribution

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