Health
How does vitamin D supplementation affect falls in the elderly? It’s complicated – UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff – University at Buffalo Reporter
UB researcher Bruce Troen examines the question in an editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
A study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine that shows no benefit from higher doses of vitamin D in the frail elderly, while of interest, is not the final chapter on how vitamin D affects this population, according to an editorial in the same issue of the journal.
In his editorial, Bruce Troen, professor and chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, describes the primary outcome of the National Institutes…
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