Rates of bone loss in postmenopausal women randomly assigned to one of two dosages of vitamin D.

We conducted a study to determine whether increasing vitamin D intake above the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of 5.0 micrograms (200 IU)/d reduces bone loss in healthy postmenopausal women residing at latitude 42 degrees N. In this double-blind, randomized 2-y trial, we enrolled 247 healthy ambulatory postmenopausal women who consumed an average of 2.

Effect of vitamin D supplementation on wintertime and overall bone loss in healthy postmenopausal women.

Objectives: To determine whether relative vitamin D deficiency during the winter months contributes to age-related bone loss and whether rates of change in hard- and soft-tissue mass vary during the year.

Design: Double-blind, placebo-controlled, 1-year trial in 249 women in which equal numbers of women were randomized to either placebo or 400 IU of vitamin D daily. All women received 377 mg/d of supplemental calcium largely as calcium citrate malate.

Maintenance of pregnancy in a home parenteral nutrition patient.

A case is reported of successful conception and completion of pregnancy in a patient with intestinal failure due to Crohn's disease, nourished entirely by home parenteral nutrition. The nutritional regimen included both dextrose and lipid as calorie sources, together with synthetic amino acids and appropriate additives. Nutritional status was monitored by blood biochemistry, anthropometry, urinary nitrogen losses, and measured resting energy expenditure.

The effect of illness behaviour on the apparent relationship between physical and mental disorders.

Evidence for associations between organic disease and psychopathology is reviewed and it is concluded that some of this is determined by complaint and consultation behaviours. The concept of illness behaviour is described. The Self Care Assessment Schedule (SCAS) is a new measure of illness behaviour and has been used to provide an independent assessment of psychiatric day patients, gynaecology and surgical outpatients.

Influence of amniotic fluid volume on lecithin estimation in prediction of respiratory distress.

One hundred samples of amniotic fluid were obtained by amniocentesis from 82 patients at different stages of normal and abnormal pregnancies. The concentration of lecithin was estimated together with the volume of the amniotic fluid, using the dilution technique. Thus the total quantity of lecithin in any amniotic sac could be calculated.

Late-Wisconsin End Moraines in Northern Canada.

A system of end moraines nearly 2240 kilometers long has been identified by field investigation and aerial photography. It extends through northeastern Keewatin, Melville Peninsula, and Baffin Island and marks the border of a late-Wisconsin ice sheet centered over Foxe Basin and Hudson Bay 8000 or 9000 years ago.