Association of Dietary Calcium Intake With Bone Health and Chronic Diseases: Two Prospective Cohort Studies in China.

ABSTRACT: Background: Calcium is an essential element in our diet and the most abundant mineral in the body. A high proportion of Chinese residents are not meeting dietary calcium recommendations. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between calcium intake and the health of residents in two longitudinal studies of Chinese residents. Methods: This study used nationally representative data from the Harbin Cohort Study on Diet, Nutrition, and Chronic Non-communicable Disease Study (HDNNCDS) and China Health Nutrition Survey (CHNS), including 6,499 and 8,140 Chinese adults, respectively, who were free of chronic diseases at recruitment, with mean values of 4.2- and 5.3-year follow-up. Cox's proportional-hazards regression was conducted to explore the relationship b

SUBMITTER: Guo X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8740131 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature