Efficacy of Calcium and Vitamin D Supplementation for the Prevention of Stress Fractures in Female Naval Recruits

Abstract

The goal of this project is to determine if calcium and vitamin D intervention can reduce the incidence of stress fracture by at least 50% in female Naval recruits during basic training. We will recruit 5200 recruits who will be randomly assigned to an intervention group given calcium 2000 mg and vitamin D 800 I.U. per day or a control placebo group. The recruit intervention and stress fracture monitoring will continue through 8 weeks of basic training. Positive findings form this study would provide support for the Navy to adopt an easy, low cost method of further decreasing incidence of stress fractures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA419678

Entities

People

  • Joan M. Lappe

Organizations

  • Creighton University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Basic Training
  • Biomedical Research
  • Bone Fractures
  • Great Lakes
  • Institutional Review Board
  • Intervention
  • Lakes
  • Monitoring
  • Osteogenesis
  • Recruits
  • Students
  • Training
  • Vitamin D

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