Study: Calcium and Vitamin D supplements offer slight help
Rehab Regs, March 3, 2006
A study of more than 36,000 middle-aged and elderly women shows that calcium and Vitamin D supplements aren't as effective against protecting against bone fractures as originally thought, reported the Washington Post.
The government study published in this month's New England Journal of Medicine found that the supplements slightly help reduce bone thinning and cut the risk of hip fractures by a small percentage when the participants used them daily.
Researchers say that the findings done over a seven-year span don't mean the supplements aren't helpful, just that they aren't foolproof.
Women taking the supplements had 1% higher hip bone density and a 12% reduction in hip fractures, according to the Post.
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