Promotion of Bonehealth in Chinese Children
Objectives
To demonstrate improved bone health of Chinese school-age children through implementation of a two-year calcium and vitamin D trial based on milk products with prepubertal school girls.
Specific objectives
(a) To improve vitamin D status by achieving plasma vitamin D levels in the normal range (>12.5 nmol/l) in 95% of vitamin D supplemented subjects after 6-9 months
(b) To achieve significantly higher bone mineral content (after adjusting for bone size) and/or significantly greater bone width in supplementation groups than in unsupplemented controls
(c) To introduce Australian food products and technology to the participatants and to establish links between Australian companies and related Chinese authorities and industries
Other objectives
- To investigate bone metabolism of milk supplemented and unsupplemented subjects by means of bone biomarkers
- To investigate the effect of vitamin D fortified milk on bone metabolism
- To study the influence of vitamin D receptor alleles on bone mass acquisition of milk supplemented and unsupplemented subjects
Personnel
- Honorary Associate Professor Heather Greenfield (Chief Investigator)
- Professor David Fraser
[View Powerpoint slide based upon some of Dr. Fraser's work. Then click on "slide show" and continue clicking] - Dr Xueqin Du (Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Zhu Kun (Research Officer)
- Angelika Trube (Senior Scientific Officer)
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