Vitamin D Administration in the Nursing Home

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2004-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Administration of vitamin D 50,000 units once monthly will:

• Maintain serum 25-OH vitamin D above 20 ng/ml

• Reduce falls

• Increase calcaneal BMD

• Reduce bone turnover

• Be well tolerated: volunteers will not develop hypercalcemia

• Improve performance on a swallowing quality of life questionnaire

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Treatments: Ergocalciferols; Vitamin D; Vitamins

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or Female

• Nursing Home Resident in Wisconsin

Exclusion Criteria:

• Renal Failure

• Hypercalcemia

• Metastatic Cancer