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The Effect of Vitamin D and Exercise on Balance in Postmenopausal Women

NCT03608488 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2020-07-01

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Summary

In recent years, skeletal and nonskeletal effects of vitamin D has been studied. One of the effects of it was balance and fall prevention. However, these studies were performed on older patients who had not vitamin D deficiency. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of vitamin D replacement therapy and exercise on balance in 50-70 years-old postmenopausal women.

Conditions

  • Vitamin D Deficiency

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Vitamin D

Vitamin D3 50.000 IU/per week, for 8 weeks

OTHER

Exercise

Core stability, balance exercises

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tugba Ozsoy-Unubol, MD · Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-06
Primary Completion
2019-07-12
Completion
2019-07-12

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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