US DEPT OF HHS: Vitamin D deficiency may increase risk of hip fracture in older women.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 April 1999-US DEPT OF HHS: Vitamin D deficiency may increase risk of hip fracture in older women (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:280499 Underlying vitamin D deficiency in post-menopausal women is associated with increased risk of hip fracture, according to investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

In a group of women with osteoporosis hospitalized for hip fracture, 50 percent were found to have a previously undetected vitamin D deficiency. In the control group, women who had not suffered a hip fracture but who were hospitalized for an elective hip replacement, only a very small percentage had vitamin D deficiency, although one-fourth of those women also had osteoporosis. These findings were reported in...