Vitamin D With Calcium May Reduce Mortality in Elderly

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Increasing intake of vitamin D and calcium reduces fracture risk in older patients and may also reduce overall mortality, Lars Rejnmark, PhD, from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, and colleagues report in an article published online May 17 and in the August print issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. The pooled analysis of 70,528 patients from 8 major vitamin D trials showed that vitamin D with calcium reduced mortality in the elderly, but vitamin D alone did not.

"This is the largest study ever performed on effects of calcium and vitamin D on mortality," Dr. Rejnmark said in a news release. "Our results showed reduced mortality in elderly patients using vitamin D supplements in combination with calcium, but these results were not found in patients on vitamin D alone."

Wanna bet?

Anabolic substances are IMHO much better and do way more.

You can bet with near-certainty that calcium and Vitamin D supplementation will do little for fracture risk in most people since osteoporosis is not a condition of either low calcium or low Vitamin D.