Treatment with potassium bicarbonate lowers calcium excretion and bone resorption in older men and women

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-102

  Dawson Hughes, Bess ^a   Harris, Susan S ^a   Palermo, Nancy J ^a   Castaneda Sceppa, Carmen ^b   Rasmussen, Helen M ^a   Dallal, Gerard E ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; BICARBONATE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM TRIPHOSPHATE; COLECALCIFEROL; PLACEBO; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM BICARBONATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIUM EXCRETION; CALCIUM URINE LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; POTASSIUM URINE LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 58149391356     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2008-1662     Document Type: Article

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