Spinal bone density and calcium intake in healthy postmenopausal women
Open Access
- 1 November 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 54 (5), 927-929
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/54.5.927
Abstract
Dietary calcium intake and bone mineral density (BMD) of the lumbar spine (L2–L4) were determined in 131 healthy free-living postmenopausal women (aged 64.7 ± 7.6 y, x̄ ± SD). The calcium consumption for the total population was 606 ± 302 mg/d. Subjects consuming less than the population mean of dietary calcium had significantly lower BMDs than did subjects with intakes above the mean (P < 0.009); these two groups did not differ in basic demographic characteristics. Additional analyses using a stepwise univariate regression model demonstrated that BMD was significantly associated with body weight (P < 0.001) and dietary calcium intake (P < 0.02). These data support the hypothesis that dietary calcium intake is a determinant of skeletal health in postmenopausal women.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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