Calcium supplements do not prevent fractures.

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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. The Clinical Impact of Fracture Liaison Services: A Systematic Review.Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation · 2021
   Review
2. The Effect of the Supplementation of a Diet Low in Calcium and Phosphorus with Either Sheep Milk or Cow Milk on the Physical and Mechanical Characteristics of Bone using A Rat Model.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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3. The Effect of Sheep and Cow Milk Supplementation of a Low Calcium Diet on the Distribution of Macro and Trace Minerals in the Organs of Weanling Rats.Nutrients · 2020
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4. Calcium, proton pump inhibitors, and fracture risk.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2016
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5. The lurch of progress.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2015
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Clear guidance on calcium and vitamin D supplements is lacking.2015
• Commented on by
  Vitamin D supplements may be needed when calcium supplements are not.2015
• Comment on
  Calcium intake and bone mineral density: systematic review and meta-analysis.2015

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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