The effect of a combined oral calcium and vitamin D supplement for treating mild to moderate vitamin D deficiency in postmenopausal women

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 183-186

  Golombick, Terry ^a   Diamond, Terry ^a  

^a ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; BIO CALCIUM; BLOOMS OSTEOBLAST; BORON; CALCIFEDIOL; CALCIUM; CALTRATE PLUS; COLECALCIFEROL; COPPER; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PARATHYROID HORMONE; SILICON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN K GROUP; ZINC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM INTAKE; CALCIUM URINE LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL IRRITATION; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MORNING DOSAGE; OSTEOBLAST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; SAMPLING ERROR; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECALCIFEROL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TABLETS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 42449150392     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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