Papers/PMID:15451777
Maternal calcium intake and offspring blood pressure.
Circulation2004The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint
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Ca(2+) — decreases systolic blood pressure (setting unspecified)
Evidence strength: very limited.Findingreplicated ×4“After further adjustment for demographic, anthropometric, dietary, social, and economic variables, the decrease in 6-month systolic blood pressure was -3.0 mm Hg (95% CI, -4.9 to -1.1) for each 500-mg increment of maternal supplemental calcium intake during pregnancy.”
Quoted verbatim from Maternal calcium intake and offspring blood pressure.. - Study
- cohort
- Dose
- per 500 mg increment of maternal supplemental calcium intake
- Population
- Six-month-old infants in the Project Viva cohort whose mothers reported supplemental calcium intake in the second trimester; supplemental calcium only, not dietary calcium from foods
Effect -3 mean difference, 95% CI -4.9 to -1.1
Maternal calcium intake and offspring blood pressure.2004PMID:1545177710.1161/01.CIR.0000143199.93495.96Permalink