High dose vitamin D supplements could reduce fractures in the elderly by more than 20%, UK researchers said. The brittlebone disease osteoporosis is common among the elderly, but scientists at the University of Cambridge in Englandhave shown that large doses of vitamin D, taken only every four months, can cut the risk of broken bones among 65 to 85 year olds. “Total fracture incidence was reduced by 22 percent and fractures in major osteroporotic sites by 33 percent,” Kay Tee Khaw, a professor of clinical gerontology, reports in the March 1st issue of the British Medical Journal. Fractures of the hip, wrist and spine are most closely linked […]