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© 1985 Oxford University Press

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DO VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTS IMPROVE THE PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES OF ELDERLY HOSPITAL PATIENTS?

D. CORLESS, Consultant Geriatrician, E. DAWSON, Occupational Therapist, F. FRASER, Occupational Therapist, M. ELLIS, Director, Occupational Therapy, S. J. W. EVANS, Senior Lecturer in Statistics, J. D. PERRY, Consultant Rheumatologist, C. REISNER, Consultant Geriatrician, C. P. SILVER, Consultant Geriatndan, M. BEER, Biochemist, B. J. BOUCHER, Senior Lecturer in Metabolism and Endocrinology and Consultant Physician and R. D. COHEN, Professor of Medicine*

Department of Geriatric Medicine, Guy's and New Cross Hospitals London
Metabolic and Endocrine Unit, Departments of Geriatric Medicine, Rheumatology and Occupational Therapy and Clinical Epidemiology, The London Hospital Medical College London E1 1BB

*Professor R. D. Cohen.

A randomized double-blind controlled trial of the effect of vitamin D supplementation on the abilities of elderly hospital patients to carry out basic activities of daily life is described. Those patients included in the trial had plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations which were low or low normal as judged by the normal range in young adults. After 2 to 9 months on the trial there was no significant difference in the performance of the control and treatment groups.

accepted in revised form July 5, 1984.


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