Calcium supplements may increase the risk of dying from heart disease in women as well as men. The National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study tracked more than 200,000 men for more than a decade. Those who took 1500 mg of calcium daily were at elevated risk for cardiovascular disease and death. Although the investigators did not find a link between calcium supplements and death in women, they cautioned that they could not rule out the possibility that calcium supplements might pose a problem.
Now a brand new study from Sweden confirms that there is indeed a risk. The researchers followed more than 60,000 women for nearly two decades. Those who consumed 1400 mg of calcium daily in their diet and also took a calcium pill more than doubled their risk of dying during the study. This evidence adds to a growing body of data suggesting that long-term high-dose calcium supplements may be doing more harm than good.
[BMJ, online, Feb. 13, 2013]
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