ey0015.5-7 | Fractures, vitamin D and steroids – unclear associations | ESPEYB15
LN Anderson
, SW Heong
, Y Chen
, KE Thorpe
, K Adeli
, A Howard
, E Sochett
, CS Birken
, PC Parkin
, JL Maguire
, TARGet Kids Collaboration
To read the full abstract: Am J Epidemiol 2017;185:1255-1262Vitamin D and adequate dietary calcium intake are important for skeletal health and therefore it was expected that vitamin D concentration would be associated with increased fracture risk. However, here, the authors did not find any statistically significant association between concurrent 25(OH)D concentration and fracture risk. In addition...