Randomized Controlled Trial of Calcium in Healthy Older Women

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 777-785

  Reid, Ian R ^a   Mason, Barbara ^a   Horne, Anne ^a   Ames, Ruth ^a   Reid, Helen E ^a   Bava, Usha ^a   Bolland, Mark J ^a   Gamble, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Falls; Iron; Mineral supplements; Nutrition; Osteoporosis; Tooth loss; Urinary calculi

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM; CITRIC ACID; PROCOLLAGEN C PROTEINASE;

AGED; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM FRACTURE; FRACTURE; HIP; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINE; UROLITHIASIS; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM CITRATE; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747892255     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.02.038     Document Type: Article

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