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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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Calcium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| 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 ...
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Dec 2005
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Parenteral calcium for intensive care unit patients
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| 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...
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| Date: |
Dec 2007
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| 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
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| 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...
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| Date: |
Jun 2001
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| 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
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| 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...
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Sep 2007
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| 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
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| 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...
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Aug 2007
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| Title: |
Interventions for leg cramps in pregnancy
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| Publisher: |
John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| 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...
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| Date: |
Oct 2001
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