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บทคัดย่อ

          The study was undertaken to obtain general information, food habit, life style, physical examination and blood calcium and its related test. The subjects of the study were 107 old people (47 men, 60 women) in each subdistrict of Hangchat district of Lampang province in the north of  Thailand. They were divided into 2 groups, the intervention and control groups. The blood was examined before the intervention group has taken calcium gluconate 1,500 mg./Day and placebo for control group for 1 and 3 months respectively. The result had shown that there is tendency to have more bone loss by blood value and the symptom not much relieved in the control group however it is nescessary to have further continuing study for more detail.