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Prevention Of Osteoporosis Might Lie In The Letter "D"
Bones / Orthopaedics Sixty-year-old Darlene Yates has had two hip replacements, a knee replacement and this past year shattered her left femur while she was walking in her neighborhood. Her diagnosis seemed obvious -- osteoporosis. But it turns out she had bone weakness caused by a vitamin D deficiency."I thought with my age and all my broken bones that I definitely had osteoporosis," Yates said. "The low vitamin D levels really took me by surprise.