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SUBMITTER: Rajpathak SN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2844677 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rajpathak Swapnil N SN Xue Xiaonan X Wassertheil-Smoller Sylvia S Van Horn Linda L Robinson Jennifer G JG Liu Simin S Allison Matthew M Martin Lisa W LW Ho Gloria Y F GY Rohan Thomas E TE
The American journal of clinical nutrition 20100224 4
<h4>Background</h4>Dietary calcium and vitamin D intakes may be inversely associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, possibly because of their potential beneficial effects on circulating lipids. Clinical trials that have evaluated the effect of calcium supplementation on lipids are limited by a short follow-up, and data on vitamin D are scarce.<h4>Objective</h4>The objective was to evaluate the effect of a longer-term effect (over 5 y) of calcium and vitamin D (CaD) supplementation on ch ...[more]