Calcium and heart attacks: The heart of the matter

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 341, Issue 7773, 2010, Pages 569-

  Dawson Hughes, Bess ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PLACEBO; VITAMIN D; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENT; VITAMIN;

ANGINA PECTORIS; BODY MASS; CALCIUM INTAKE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; NOTE;

BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; CALCIUM, DIETARY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; VITAMIN D; VITAMINS;

EID: 77956802475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c4993     Document Type: Letter

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