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Annual Vitamin D and Fractures

Even if vitamin D administration is widely used to prevent fractures in old women, its usefulness has not got a clear evidence yet. Some Australian researchers, starting from the supposition that its daily assumption can create some problems for compliance and therapy adhesion, have randomized 2317 women (averagely 76 years of age) with a high fracture risk to receive only one annual dose of vitamin D (500,000 UI) or placebo, for averagely 3-5 years.
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