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Calcium and CV Risk: Are Supplements and Vitamin D to Blame?

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Tricia Ward and Matthew Budoff discuss the impact of dietary intake of calcium and calcium supplementation on cardiovascular risk.

Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles; Endowed Chair, Preventive Cardiology, Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CaliforniaTricia Ward:

As you mentioned, there are a couple of newer studies that point us toward a relationship. I think that we still have a little bit of a mixed bag, but we need to dive a little deeper into that to figure out what's going on. . There is no relationship between dietary calcium intake and coronary calcium or cardiovascular events. We're talking mostly about supplements now when we talk about this increased risk that we're seeing.

 

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