Vitamin D supplementation can reduce falls in nursing care facilities

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 09:07 in Health & Medicine

Giving people living in nursing facilities vitamin D can reduce the rate of falls, according to a new Cochrane Review. This finding comes from a study of many different interventions used in different situations. In hospitals, multifactorial interventions and supervised exercise programs also showed benefit...

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