The cardiovascular safety aspects of calcium supplementations: where does the truth lie? A personal perspective.
Climacteric
; 18(1): 6-10, 2015 Feb.
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em En
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| ID: mdl-25318377
ABSTRACT
Clinical guidelines may change with time, as more information from topline studies emerges. Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation became routine decades ago, especially in the older population, based on the assumption that it may promote bone health and prevent fractures, and perhaps induce additional favorable health outcomes. During the past years, an ongoing debate defies this paradigm, mainly because of a potential cardiovascular risk on the one hand, and uncertainty in regard to the extent of the beneficial bone effects on the other hand. The following article summarizes the main recent developments, trying to put some order into the controversial information and opinions which have been published in the medical literature. We conclude that the best current evidence supports a primary strategy of obtaining recommended intakes of calcium and vitamin D from dietary sources. But, since most western diets are inadequate in that regard, and since there is no clear evidence of harm from modest supplementation (up to 1000 mg of elemental calcium and 400 IU of vitamin D3), supplementation is appropriate when dietary intake is inadequate.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Contexto em Saúde:
1_ASSA2030
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2_ODS3
Problema de saúde:
1_doencas_nao_transmissiveis
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2_muertes_prematuras_enfermedades_notrasmisibles
Assunto principal:
Cálcio da Dieta
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Doenças Cardiovasculares
Tipo de estudo:
Guideline
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Climacteric
Assunto da revista:
GINECOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Israel