Calcium supplementation: Results may not be generalisable.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Effect of calcium supplements on risk of myocardial infarction and cardiovascular events: meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2010
   Pooled it
2. Baseline characteristics of participants in the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL).Contemporary clinical trials · 2016
   Trial
3. The VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL): rationale and design of a large randomized controlled trial of vitamin D and marine omega-3 fatty acid supplements for the primary prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease.Contemporary clinical trials · 2012
   Trial
4. Integrated Genetics and Micronutrient Data to Inform the Causal Association Between Serum Calcium Levels and Ischemic Stroke.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020
   Article
5. Calcium Supplements and Cardiovascular Disease: A Review.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2015
   Article
6. The risks and benefits of calcium supplementation.Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) · 2015
   Review
7. Calcium supplement intake and risk of cardiovascular disease in women.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2014
   Article
8. The role of calcium in the prevention of cardiovascular disease--a review of observational studies and randomized clinical trials.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2013
   Review
9. Scientific Opinion on the Tolerable Upper Intake Level of calcium.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2012
   Article
10. Calcium intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: a review of prospective studies and randomized clinical trials.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2012
    Review
11. Is excess calcium harmful to health?Nutrients · 2010
    Review

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Vascular events in healthy older women receiving calcium supplementation: randomised controlled trial.2008

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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