ArticleScientific reports2017
Low Habitual Dietary Calcium and Linear Growth from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: results from the China Health and Nutrition Survey.
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Abstract
Evidences from clinical trials and meta-analyses of calcium supplementation in linear growth have given conflicting results, and few longitudinal studies have investigated the long-term associations between dietary calcium and linear growth, especially in the population with low-calcium plant-based diets. We investigated the prospective associations of low habitual dietary calcium with adult height and height-for-age z-score (HAZ) from adolescence to adulthood among 2019 adolescents from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). The average dietary calcium intakes were 426(standard deviation: 158) mg/d in boys and 355(134) mg/d in girls during adolescence. During a median follow-up of 7.0 (interquartile range: 5.9-9.0) years, boys reached an average of 169.0(6.7) cm and girls reached 158.4(5.8) cm in adulthood. After adjusting for other potential confounders, non-linear regression found that boys with dietary calcium intakes below 327 mg/d had shorter adult stature, and those taking over 566 mg/d had faster height growth whether adjusting for physical exercises level or not. No significant associations were found in girls. Our study suggests that in boys with plant-based diets, higher dietary calcium intake during adolescence is associated with faster height growth, but not with adult height; calcium intake below 300 mg/d may result in shorter adult stature.
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