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Serum 25-OHD insufficiency as a risk factor for hip fracture.

Sakuma M, Endo N, Oinuma T

Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Community Preventive Medicine, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 1-757 Asahimachi dori, Niigata 951-8510, Japan. maysakuma@yahoo.co.jp

The aging population and an increasing number of hip fractures worldwide have made prevention of hip fractures a matter of importance. The prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in patients with acute hip fracture has been reported widely in recent years, and the vitamin D nutritional status in such reports is usually evaluated based on serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD). The aim of this article is to review the relationship of serum 25-OHD and osteoporotic fracture and the prevalence of 25-OHD insufficiency in patients with hip fracture, including assessment of nutritional status, oral status, activity, and dementia. We conclude that the serum 25-OHD level may be a useful index for risk of hip fracture in elderly people.

Published 20 April 2007 in J Bone Miner Metab, 25(3): 147-50.
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