Vitamin D supplements do NOT help elderly people avoid bone fractures

Vitamin D supplements do NOT help elderly people avoid bone fractures Taking vitamin D supplements every day does not help a person avoid bone fractures, a major study suggests — contradicting years of medical advice that said otherwise.

Researchers led by Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, found that people who used the supplements were no less likely to suffer bone fractures than those who did not. The Daily Mail

See also: 

• Supplemental Vitamin D and Incident Fractures in Midlife and Older Adults (abstract) New England Journal of Medicine