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...sponsored by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
"I would like to suggest to you that vitamin D inadequacy might be contributing to what we are currently accepting as old age-related morbidity," said Dr. Binkley, codirector of the University of Wisconsin Osteoporosis Clinical Center and Research Program, Madison.
The prevalence of densitometric osteopenia markedly increases with advancing age, and at any given bone density, age has a "profound impact" on the risk of fracture, he said (J. Clin. Invest. 1988;81:1804-9).
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