Long term calcium intake and rates of all cause and cardiovascular mortality: community based prospective longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the association between long term intake of dietary and supplemental calcium and death from all causes and cardiovascular disease.

Design

Prospective longitudinal cohort study.

Setting

Swedish mammography cohort, a population based cohort established in 1987-90.

Participants

61 433 women (born between 1914 and 1948) followed-up for a median of 19 years.

Main outcome measures

Primary outcome measures, identified from registry data, were time to death from all causes (n=11 944) and cause specific cardiovascular disease (n=3862), ischaemic heart disease (n=1932), and stroke (n=1100). Diet was assessed by food frequency questionnaires at baseline and in 1997 for 38 984 women, and intakes of calcium were estimated. Total calcium intak

SUBMITTER: Michaelsson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3571949 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature