Efficacy of calcium supplementation for management of overweight and obesity: Systematic review of randomized clinical trials

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 335-343

  Onakpoya, Igho J ^a   Perry, Rachel ^a   Zhang, Junhua ^a   Ernst, Edzard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body weight; Efficacy; Meta analysis; Obesity; Randomized clinical trial

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BODY FAT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; OBESITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANTI-OBESITY AGENTS; CALCIUM, DIETARY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79957886092     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2011.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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