Calcium supplementation and vitamin D: A trigger for adverse cardiovascular events?

Future Cardiology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 725-727

  Zittermann, Armin ^a   Pilz, Stefan ^b   Börgermann, Jochen ^a   Gummert, Jan F ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

25 hydroxyvitamin D; calcium; cardiovascular events; hypercalcemia; mortality; myocardial infarction; supplements; vascular calcification; vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCITONIN; CALCIUM; CYTOKINE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PLACEBO; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VITAMIN D;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CALCIUM ABSORPTION; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM INTAKE; CALCIUM METABOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; HAZARD RATIO; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SITTING; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; CALCIUM, DIETARY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN D; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 80555135944     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.11.65     Document Type: Review

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