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Osteoporosis: vitamin D

Australia

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Prevention and treatment of infant and childhood vitamin D deficiency in Australia and New Zealand: a consensus statement [2006]

Australia, New Zealand

• Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society
  • Vitamin D and adult bone health in Australia and New Zealand: a position statement [2005]

Canada

• BCGuidelines
  • Vitamin D Testing Protocol [2010]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Vitamin D testing protocol. Medical Services Commission, British Columbia [2010]

• Osteoporosis Canada
  • Vitamin D in adult health and disease: a review and guideline statement from Osteoporosis Canada [2010]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Vitamin D and vitamin D analogues for preventing fractures associated with involutional and post-menopausal osteoporosis

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Vitamin D Status of New Zealand Adults [2012]
  • Consensus Statement on Vitamin D and Sun Exposure in New Zealand [2012]

Poland

• Endokrynologia Polska
  • Prophylaxis of vitamin D deficiency--Polish Recommendations 2009 [2010]

United States of America

• Endocrine Society
  • Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention of Vitamin D Deficiency [2011]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Evaluation, treatment, and prevention of vitamin D deficiency: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline [2011]
  • Recommendations for the diagnosis and management of vitamin D deficiency in adults. University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner Program [2009]

Articles in journals

• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Summary of evidence-based review on vitamin D efficacy and safety in relation to bone health [2008]

• Australian Family Physician
  • Vitamin D and the musculoskeletal health of older adults [2012]
  • Vitamin D - A review [2008]

• BMC Public Health
  • Hip fracture risk in relation to vitamin D supplementation and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies [2010]

• British Medical Journal
  • Patient level pooled analysis of 68500 patients from seven major vitamin D fracture trials in US and Europe [2010]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Vitamin D and Calcium Insufficiency-Related Chronic Diseases: an Emerging World-Wide Public Health Problem [2009]

• Molecular Endocrinology
  • Vitamin D: More Than a "Bone-a-Fide" Hormone [2003]

• QJM
  • The effect of cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) on the risk of fall and fracture: a meta-analysis [2007]

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• Guidelines
  • Osteoporosis: prevention, treatment