More dietary calcium may lower risk of cardiovascular disease

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/tes-mdc040116.php

Public Release: 2-Apr-2016
More dietary calcium may lower risk of cardiovascular disease
Diet change did not affect stroke or fracture risk
The Endocrine Society

In older people, higher dietary calcium intake may lower the risk of cardiovascular disease, but not of stroke and fracture, new research from South Korea suggests. The results will be presented in a poster Saturday, April 2, at ENDO 2016, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, in Boston.

"The role of dietary calcium intake in cardiovascular disease, stroke and fracture is controversial. Moreover, participants in previous studies were from populations that had calcium-rich diets. We aimed to evaluate whether high dietary calcium intake increases the risk of CVD, stroke and fracture in a population with low calcium intake," said lead author Sung Hye Kong, MD, resident physician in the Department of Internal Medicine of Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul, South Korea.

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