Calcium Supplements Increase Vascular Events?

Still think they know what a "healthy" supplement is?

"A new study has shown that calcium supplementation might increase vascular events in elderly women...

'This is quite controversial, given that the worldwide calcium-supplement market is worth $3 billion a year,' says Reid. 'The trial was primarily looking at what calcium supplements do to bone density, but we had a secondary hypothesis right from the outset that calcium might actually prevent heart attack. What we found, to our surprise, was that we didn't see a decrease but an increase, and the findings appear to be quite robust.' Reid added, however, that there have been some clues from three other recent studies, including one from Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in the US: 'these three did not find significant increases in the number of heart attacks [with calcium], but they have found upward trends.'"

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