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Professional dialysis recruitment| Fracture benefits of vitamin D in the elderly appear only at doses greater than 800 IU / day. |
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| NEJM: "Taking between 800 IUs and 2,000 IUs of vitamin D per day significantly reduced the risk of most fractures, including hip, wrist and forearm in both men and women age 65 and older," said Dawson-Hughes, the study's senior author. "Importantly, we saw there was no benefit to taking Vitamin D supplements in doses below 800 IUs per day for fracture prevention." |
