{"id":202765,"date":"2024-12-30T05:31:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/vitamin-d-supplements-unlikely-to-prevent-fractures-or-falls"},"modified":"2024-12-30T05:31:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:31:47","slug":"vitamin-d-supplements-unlikely-to-prevent-fractures-or-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/vitamin-d-supplements-unlikely-to-prevent-fractures-or-falls","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D: Supplements unlikely to prevent fractures or falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vitamin-d-supplements-unlikely-to-prevent-fractures-or-falls.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/161618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\">Vitamin D<\/a> supplements with or without calcium, while necessary for overall health, have no effect on preventing falls or fractures in older adults, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org\/uspstf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">draft recommendation<\/a> from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>By analyzing 20 unique randomized, controlled studies in 54 different publications, reviewers determined that additional vitamin D supplementation for postmenopausal women and older men \u2014 given that those populations had normal vitamin D levels, no previous fractures, and no issues with bone density \u2014 was unnecessary and had no bearing on the severity of injuries from falls.<\/p>\n<p>The finding was an update from a 2018 recommendation that postmenopausal women should not supplement with 400 units or less of vitamin D and 1,000 milligrams or less of calcium for the primary prevention of fracture; men were not included in that recommendation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin D supplements with or without calcium, while necessary for overall health, have no effect on preventing falls or fractures in older adults, according to a new draft recommendation from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force. By analyzing 20 unique randomized, controlled studies in 54 different publications, reviewers determined that additional vitamin D supplementation for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}