Carrolltown Vitamin Deficiencies in Women Related to Fracture Risk
Fractures are enemies of Carrolltown women and men. They result in pain and long recoveries. Carrolltown postmenopausal women tend to be at greater risk of fractures, especially those who experience vitamin deficiencies. Carrolltown vitamin deficiencies are pretty easily tested for and fixed with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation's help should testing divulge such deficiencies. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation guides Carrolltown chiropractic patients who are ready to have their vitamin status checked and help them any deficiencies in order to lower fracture risk.
VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES AND FRACTURE RISK
The more the merrier? Not really 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 had fractures during that time period. The number of deficiencies (0/no deficiencies to 3/deficient in D, K and B) was significantly associated with fracture risk. (1) With respect to this report, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation notices that it is important to check for vitamin deficiencies and deal with them.
WHAT TO DO TO IMPROVE VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES AND PREVENT Carrolltown FRACTURES
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation notes that the risk of fragility fractures is more than the risk of breast cancer for postmenopausal women. 33% are at risk. Fortunately, Carrolltown fracture risk can be curbed by healthy lifestyle modifications 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) decreased bone loss. Menaquinone-4 had the strongest impact on vertebral fracture reduction. (4) And while vitamin B supplementation alone didn’t demonstrate a significant impact on osteoporotic fracture occurrence in patients with cerebrovascular disease, it did show a modest impact. (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 changes HCy levels thought to have a role in osteoporotic fracture and bone turnover. (6) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation considers all sorts of factors when guiding patients in nutritional supplementation.
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Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic visit with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation to tackle any vitamin deficiencies and reduce your Carrolltown fracture risk!
