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Volume 43, Issue 19, Page 1 (1 October 2008)


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High Vitamin C Linked to Lower Hip Fracture Risk

JEFF EVANS (Senior Writer)

MONTREAL — Consumption of vitamin C at sufficiently high levels is associated with nearly a 50% decrease in the risk of hip and nonvertebral osteoporotic fractures in elderly men and women, according to a 15- to 17-year follow-up of participants in the Framingham Osteoporosis Study.

PII: S0029-7437(08)70602-5

doi:10.1016/S0029-7437(08)70602-5


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