Marie-Claire Chapuy

TL;DR: The results showed that in French normal adults living in an urban environment with a lack of direct exposure to sunshine, diet failed to provide an adequate amount of vitamin D, and the clinical utility of winter supplementation with low doses ofitamin D was discussed.

TL;DR: Elderly women are characterized by increased bone turnover, and some markers of bone resorption predict the subsequent risk of hip fracture independently of hip BMD, which may be useful to improve the assessment of the risk of Hip fracture in elderly women.

TL;DR: Assessing bone marker levels may be useful in the evaluation of osteoporosis risk in elderly women, as secondary hyperparathyroidism caused in part by reduced serum 25‐hydroxyvitamin D appears to be a marginal determinant of an increased bone turnover rate.

TL;DR: It is shown that daily supplementation with 1.2 g calcium and 800 IU cholecalciferol over 18 months substantially decreased the risk of hip fractures and other non-vertebral fractures in elderly women living in nursing homes.

TL;DR: Serum BGP appears to be a specific marker for bone formation and can predict the histological profile in PMO and should be valuable in assessing the effects of treatments that increase bone formation.