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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2006;295:1364.

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Additional research from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute–funded Women’s Health Initiative has shown that calcium plus vitamin D supplements in healthy postmenopausal women provide a modest benefit in preserving bone mass and preventing hip fractures, but compliance was important to show a substantial benefit. However, the supplement did not show evidence of preventing colorectal cancer (Jackson RD et al. N Engl J Med. 2006;354:669-683; Wactawski-Wende J et al. N Engl J Med. 2006;354:684-696).

In the Calcium With Vitamin D trial of 36 282 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years, participants were randomly assigned to receive placebo or 1000 mg of elemental calcium plus 400 IU of vitamin D₃ daily and were followed up for an average of 7 years.

A new study found that supplements containing calcium plus vitamin D yielded a modest benefit in bone health in postmenopausal women but not a . . . [Full Text of this Article]