Systematic Reviews on Calcium

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of calcium in treatments.

Reviewed September 2008

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Title:   Calcium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   It reviewed 13 trials enrolling 485 people, which compared calcium supplementation with placebo or no treatment, and measured blood pressure 8 to 15 weeks later. On average, people receiving extra calcium achieved slightly lower systolic blood pressure ...
Date:   Dec 2005
Title:   Parenteral calcium for intensive care unit patients
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:   Calcium antagonists as an add-on therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy
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:   Jul 2001
Title:   Calcium and phosphorus supplementation of human milk for preterm infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   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. This puts them at risk for fractures and lower-than-expected growth rates as these mineral...
Date:   Jun 2001
Title:   Dietary calcium supplementation for preventing colorectal cancer and adenomatous polyps
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 inte...
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Interventions for the prevention of nutritional rickets in term born children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Rickets is a disease which affects the bone of growing children. Calcium and phosphate are important elements which form the bone. In nutritional rickets, initially the availability of calcium is diminished, later disturbances in phosphate occur. The sh...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Calcium supplementation during pregnancy for preventing hypertensive disorders and related problems
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pre-eclampsia is a major cause of death in pregnant women and newborn babies worldwide. Preterm birth (birth before 37 weeks) is often caused by high blood pressure and is the leading cause of newborn deaths, particularly in low-income countries. The re...
Date:   Mar 2006
Title:   Interventions for leg cramps in pregnancy
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
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