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To the Editor: Tinetti (Jan. 2 issue)¹ discusses the benefit of targeted interventions in reducing the occurrence of falls in elderly persons. We believe vitamin D status deserves greater emphasis. Myopathy associated with vitamin D insufficiency contributes to gait instability, increased body sway, and falls.² Despite the fortification of dairy products and other foods in North America, moderate-to-severe vitamin D insufficiency affects up to 50 percent of elderly women with disability who live in the community³ and was found in 72 percent of elderly persons attending a fall clinic.⁴ Although there is probably little effect of supplementation on healthy elderly . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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