Effects of a simple home exercise program and vitamin D supplementation on health-related quality of life after a hip fracture: a randomized controlled trial.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this randomized controlled trial publication.

To test the effects of vitamin D intervention and a simple home exercise program (HE) on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in the first 12 months after hip fracture.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 173 patients taking part.

PubMed indexes the participants as older adults and people over 80, both men and women.

How the Study Was Run

The researchers set it up as a randomized study.

The patients were allocated by chance, so the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc group and the comparison group should start out alike.

Pre-fracture HRQL was assessed at baseline (4.2 ± 2.2 days post-surgery) and then again at 6 and 12 months after hip fracture surgery by the EuroQol EQ-5D-3L index value (EQ-5D-3L questionnaire).

What Was Measured

The subject headings attached to it are Dietary Supplements, Exercise Therapy, Hip Fractures, Quality of Life, Surveys and Questionnaires and Vitamin D.

Author keywords: Elderly and RCT.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 173 patients.

Results are reported in around 4 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2019 (Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation), a journal based in Netherlands.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.