Open AccessVitamin A Intake and Hip Fractures Among Postmenopausal Women
Author(s) -
Diane Feskanich
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.287.1.47
Subject(s) - medicine , hip fracture , relative risk , prospective cohort study , vitamin d and neurology , vitamin , retinol , confounding , context (archaeology) , confidence interval , physiology , osteoporosis , paleontology , biology
Ingestion of toxic amounts of vitamin A affects bone remodeling and can have adverse skeletal effects in animals. The possibility has been raised that long-term high vitamin A intake could contribute to fracture risk in humans.
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