For years, conventional wisdom was that older adults should take calcium and vitamin D supplements for bone health and to ...

Purpose. The most recent large-scale studies evaluating the effects of calcium supplementation for prevention of osteoporosis-related fractures in postmenopausal women are reviewed. Summary.

Higher calcium intake ... (401 mg/d for women, 407 mg/d for men). The inverse association was observed across all tumor sites, including the proximal colon (HR, 0.75), distal colon (HR, 0.73 ...