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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
Volume 77, Issue 2, Pages 504-511Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL NUTRITION
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/77.2.504
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calcium; vitamin D; milk; diet; hip fracture; osteoporosis; postmenopausal women
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA87969] Funding Source: Medline
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Background: Short trials of calcium supplementation show that it reduces loss of bone density in postmenopausal women; longer observational studies do not generally find a lower risk of hip fracture with higher-calcium diets. Fewer studies have focused on vitamin D in preventing postmenopausal osteoporosis or fractures. Objective: a assessed relations between postmenopausal hip fracture risk and calcium, vitamin D, and milk consumption. Design: In an 18-y prospective analysis in 72 337 postmenopausal women, dietary intake and nutritional supplement use were assessed at baseline in 1980 and updated several times during follow-up. We identified 603 incident hip fractures resulting from low or moderate trauma. Relative risks (RRs) from proportional hazards models were controlled for other dietary and nondietary factors. Results: Women consuming greater than or equal to 12.5 mug vitamin D/d from food plus supplements had a 37% lover risk of hip fracture (RR = 1.63; 95% CI: 0.42, 0.94) than did women consuming < 3.5 mug/d. Total calcium intake was not associated with hip fracture risk (RR = 0.96; 95 CI: 0.68, 134 for greater than or equal to 1200 compared with < 630 mg/d). Milk consumption was also not associated with a lower risk of hip fracture (P for trend = 0.21). Conclusions: An adequate vitamin D intake is associated with a lower risk of osteoporotic hip fractures in postmenopausal women. Neither milk nor a high-calcium diet appears to reduce risk. Because women commonly consume less than the recommended intake of vitamin D, supplement use or dark fish consumption may be prudent.
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