Innovation Anthology #589:

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Vitamin D is supposed to help improve bone health. But at what dose? Is it 400, 4 thousand or 10 thousand units a day?

Dr. Steve Boyd is a biomedical engineer and Alberta Innovates Health Solutions Senior Scholar at the University of Calgary. His team is looking for 300 volunteers to participate in this long term study on Vitamin D.

Steve will use a very high resolution scanner to measure changes in participants’ bone composition over time.

DR STEVEN BOYD: We want to see that the bones are changing in their size and their structure to make them stronger. And so that’s what these tools that we have are very sensitive at detecting. And we can actually take the data which be full, 3 dimensional views of people’s bones at high resolution and we can use engineering tools to simulate for each of these individuals in our study, what their bone strength would be. So we can do a virtual test of their bone strength. And that goes much beyond simply measuring how dense their bones are.

Dr. Boyd says the study will also measure secondary outcomes, by looking at the relationship between Vitamin D and mental health as well as body balance.

Thanks today to Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

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Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates (formerly Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions)

As the newly formed Alberta Innovates corporation, we still fund top quality, internationally competitive health research and innovation activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Albertans. We provide leadership for Alberta’s health research and innovation enterprise by directing, coordinating, reviewing, funding and supporting research and innovation.

Working with our many partners  in the health system, we ensure that research achieves innovation in care, policy and practice, and that the needs of patients and clinicians influence research.

Our background

Alberta Innovates consolidation was launched November 1, 2016.

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions was established as part of the Alberta Innovates system by an Act of Legislation of the Government of Alberta. It is a agency  of the Government of Alberta. We receive a yearly allocation from the Ministry of Health and report through the ministry to the people of Alberta.

Our Mandate and Roles document reflects our role and responsibilities and outlines the government statues and regulations with which we comply.

Alberta’s Health Research and Innovation Strategy (AHRIS) sets out Alberta’s health research agenda for the coming decade to ensure our considerable investments in research align with our priority—to improve the health of Albertans.

 

 

Program Date: 2014-01-28