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ArticleOsteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA2017

Are more trials of calcium supplements really needed? A response to Bolland et al.

N C Harvey, C Cooper, IOF-ESCEO Working Group

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Article in Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

N C HarveyMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
C CooperMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-3510-0709
IOF-ESCEO Working Group

Funding

Arthritis Research UK 17702Arthritis Research UK 21231Department of Health 10/33/04Department of Health HTA/10/33/04Medical Research Council G0400491Medical Research Council MC_U147585819Medical Research Council MC_U147585824Medical Research Council MC_U147585827Medical Research Council MC_UP_A620_1014Medical Research Council MC_UU_12011/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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CalciumCalcium, DietaryDietary SupplementsCalciumCalcium, Dietary

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PMID28687860
PMCPMC5624505

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