The Effect of Vitamin D and Exercise on Balance in Postmenopausal Women

Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Status: Completed

Conditions: Vitamin D Deficiency

Treatments: Other: Exercise; Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03608488

Tugbaozsoy

Details and patient eligibility

About

In recent years, skeletal and nonskeletal effects of vitamin D has been studied. One of the effects of it was balance and fall prevention. However, these studies were performed on older patients who had not vitamin D deficiency. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of vitamin D replacement therapy and exercise on balance in 50-70 years-old postmenopausal women.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 50 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 50-70 years-old postmenopausal women
• Vitamin D level<10 ng/ml and Vitamin D level>30 ng/ml
• Independant in daily life
• Able to do exercise
• Able to read and write in Turkish

Exclusion criteria

• Diabetes mellitus,
• Polyneuropathy,
• Spinal stenosis,
• History of fracture or lower extremity operation,
• Rheumatologic diseases,
• History of chemotherapy
• Cognitive impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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110 participants in 4 patient groups

Vitamin D<10 ng/ml; Vitamin D replacement

Experimental group

Description:

Vitamin D replacement (50.000 IU/per week, for 8 weeks)

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D

Vitamin D<10 ng/ml; Vitamin D replacement and exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Vitamin D replacement (50.000 IU/per week, for 8 weeks) and Core and balance exercises for 8 weeks.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D

Vitamin D<10 ng/ml; exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Core and balance exercises for 8 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Vitamin D>30ng/ml; exercise

Active Comparator group

Description:

Core and balance exercises for 8 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise