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Systematic Reviews on Calcium
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of calcium treatments.
Reviewed September 2009
9 Resources Found
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| Title: | Calcium antagonists as an add-on therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | No evidence to suggest that calcium antagonists have a useful effect on seizures |
| Date: | Nov 2009 |
| Title: | Pharmacological interventions for preventing complications in idiopathic hypercalciuria |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Idiopathic hypercalciuria is an inherited metabolic abnormality characterised by excessive amounts of calcium excreted into the urine in patients with normal serum levels of calcium. The main complications of this disease in adults are the formation of ... |
| Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Title: | Parenteral calcium for intensive care unit patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Several epidemiological studies of critically ill patients highlight a direct association between low levels of calcium (hypocalcemia) and mortality, though whether this association is causal is unknown. On the other hand, despite prior studies detailin... |
| Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Title: | Dietary calcium supplementation for preventing colorectal cancer and adenomatous polyps |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | There have been suggestions, based on observational studies and on laboratory markers, that dietary calcium may protect against colorectal cancer. This systematic review of the literature identified two well conducted randomised placebo-controlled inter... |
| Date: | Sep 2007 |
| Title: | Interventions for the prevention of nutritional rickets in term born children |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Although only a few studies with different results exist, preventive measures against nutritional rickets appear reasonable in high risk groups until new data become available. ... |
| Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Title: | Calcium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review did not find robust evidence that oral calcium supplementation reduces high blood pressure in adults. It reviewed 13 trials enrolling 485 people, which compared calcium supplementation with placebo or no treatment, and measured blood pressur... |
| Date: | May 2006 |
| Title: | Calcium supplementation during pregnancy for preventing hypertensive disorders and related problems |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Calcium supplements help prevent pre-eclampsia, lowers the risk of the woman dying or having serious problems.... |
| Date: | Mar 2006 |
| Title: | Interventions for leg cramps in pregnancy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Sodium supplements may decrease the number of cramp attacks experienced by women in pregnancy but the effect is slight. Calcium is of no benefit. The evidence of benefit for magnesium is stronger. Multivitamin and mineral supplements also seem to hel... |
| Date: | Oct 2001 |
| Title: | Calcium and phosphorus supplementation of human milk for preterm infants |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Adding extra calcium and phosphorus to human milk for increasing growth in preterm infants. Preterm infants are born with low skeletal stores of calcium and phosphorus as some two-thirds of mineral content is taken up in the third trimester of pregnancy... |
| Date: | Jun 2001 |
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