OSTEOPOROSIS-PROPHYLACTIC SUPPLEMENTATION

SUMMARY

1. For post-menopausal women with normal serum calcium & vitamin D, the common practice of supplementation with a combination of 1000mg of calcium, and 400 IU of vitamin D was found to have no effect on the incidence of fractures.

2. Supplementation at this level was found to increase a woman's risk of developing kidney stones.

3. Vitamin D does appear to play a role in preventing falls in the elderly.

Reference(s)

Wilkinson, I., Furmedge, D. and Sinharay, R. (2017). Oxford handbook of clinical medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Get it on Amazon.
Feather, A., Randall, D. and Waterhouse, M. (2020). Kumar And Clark’s Clinical Medicine. 10th ed. S.L.: Elsevier Health Sciences. Get it on Amazon.
Hannaman, R. A., Bullock, L., Hatchell, C. A., & Yoffe, M. (2016). Internal medicine review core curriculum, 2017-2018. CO Springs, CO: MedStudy.
Therapeutic Guidelines. Melbourne: Therapeutic Guidelines Limited. https://www.tg.org.au [Accessed 2021].