San Jose Vitamin Deficiencies in Women Related to Fracture Risk
Fractures are enemies of San Jose women and men. They result in pain and long recoveries. San Jose postmenopausal women have a tendency to be at higher risk of fractures, especially those who experience vitamin deficiencies. San Jose vitamin deficiencies are relatively [simple|easy]6] to test for and tackled with Chiropractic Solutions's help should testing divulge such deficiencies. Chiropractic Solutions guides San Jose chiropractic patients who want to check their vitamin status with nutrition and address any deficiencies in order to lower fracture risk.
VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES AND FRACTURE RISK
The more the merrier? Not necessarily when it comes to multiple vitamin deficiencies! A new study reported that the cumulative effect of vitamin deficiencies increased the risk of incident fractures in postmenopausal women. Vitamin D, vitamin K and vitamin B levels were taken in women over 50 years of age and tracked for 6.3 years (plus or minus 5.1 years). 29.7% of these women experienced fractures during this time. The number of deficiencies (0/no deficiencies to 3/deficient in D, K and B) was significantly associated with fracture risk. (1) Regarding this report, Chiropractic Solutions notes the importance of checking for vitamin deficiencies and deal with them.
WHAT TO DO TO FIX VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES AND AVOID San Jose FRACTURES
Chiropractic Solutions notes that the risk of fragility fractures is higher than the risk of breast cancer for postmenopausal women. 33% are at risk. Luckily, San Jose fracture risk can be limited by healthy lifestyle changes like vitamin supplementation, weight-bearing exercise, limited alcohol intake and not smoking. Vitamin supplementation including at least 1000 mg/day of calcium, 800 IU/day of vitamin D, and 1 gram/kilogram of body weight of protein in women over 50 is recommended. (2) Vitamin D plus calcium supplementation reduces the risk of total fractures by 15% and hip fractures by 30%, specifically. (3) Oral vitamin K supplementation (phytonadione and menaquinone-4) reduced bone loss. Menaquinone-4 showed the strongest impact on vertebral fracture reduction. (4) And while vitamin B supplementation alone didn’t show a significant impact on osteoporotic fracture occurrence in patients with cerebrovascular disease, it did show a modest effect. (5) Patients with very high plasma homocysteine levels and vascular disease seemed to benefit more from vitamin B supplementation (folate, B6, and B12) to prevent osteoporotic fractures. Vitamin B effectively modifies HCy levels considered to have a role in osteoporotic fracture and bone turnover. (6) Chiropractic Solutions considers all types of factors when guiding patients in nutritional supplementation.
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