NCT01694355

The Impact of Severe Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Correction on Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in Postmenopausal Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Soroka University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 55 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It is well known that postmenopausal women are at risk for osteoporosis. The study hypothesis is that vitamin D deficiency (≤17.5nmol/L) is frequently associated with osteomalacia and will cause low BMD estimation in DXA scan due to insufficient bone mineralization. We assume that among these postmenopausal women, Vitamin D treatment will improve bone mineralization and will cause a rapid increase in BMD. According to the results, bisphosphonates therapy may be an unnecessary treatment. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of severe vitamin D deficiency and its correction on Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in postmenopausal women.

Conditions

• Vitamin D Deficiency

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Vitamin D

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-10-01
• Primary completion: 2018-10-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2012-09-27
• Last updated: 2019-04-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel