NCT00640237

Interventional Trial of Vitamin D Deficiency in the Patients of General Departments

Vitamin D Deficiency in the Elder Patients of General Departments and Its Treatment During the Hospitalization

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Rambam Health Care Campus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to examine the vitamin D state of elder patients in therapeutic departments and to compere the treatment during the hospitalization with the out-patient treatment.

Detailed description

Today vitamin D is thought to be one of the most important vitamins in the human body. It's made in the skin during the sun expose, so it must be sufficient in so sunny countries as Israel. Although many old people in our country suffer from vitamin d deficiency which bring them to recurrent falls, osteoporotic fractures and physical disability. This problem is still underestimated by health authorities in different countries. In this study we will examine the vitamin D state of the therapeutic patient older than 65 year including their physical self-estimation, muscle strength measurement and gait-and-balance tests. Then, according to the resent studies, we will treat the patients in the interventional group with two large doses of vitamin D during a month. After that we will compere their health and physical state with the patients treated in the out-hospital department. So we will try to find a useful approach to treat the vitamin D deficiency during the hospitalization.

Conditions

• Vitamin D Deficiency

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Alpha-D3	We will use the vitamin alpha-D3 drops of CTS pharmaceutical firm , that contains 5000 IU in ml. Every patient in the interventional group will receive two dose of 100000 IU (20 ml)vitamin alpha-D3 within a month period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-03-01
• Primary completion: 2008-07-01
• Completion: 2008-08-01
• First posted: 2008-03-21
• Last updated: 2008-03-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel