2010-04-07

Dietary Calcium and Magnesium Intake and Mortality

Dairy Science in the literature

American Journal of Epidemiology 2010 171(7):801-807
Dietary Calcium and Magnesium Intake and Mortality: A Prospective Study of Men
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/171/7/801

In this study on over 23,000 Swedish men, calcium was associated with a statistically significant lower rate of all-cause mortality, and a non-significant reduction in CVD mortality.
No relation was found between calcium and cancer, or with magnesium and any mortality measure.

The lower rate of all-cause mortality corresponds to a 25 percent lower rate of death over 10 years.

Obviously it is important to determine what exactly is happening here.

here is a Reuters article
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35824298/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/

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