Is there rationale for vitamin D prescribing in the elderly population? [8]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 235-236

  Fisher, Alexander ^a   Davis, Michael ^a  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SYNDROME X; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; VITAMIN D;

EID: 0037346475     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/32.2.235     Document Type: Letter

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