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NIH Consensus conference. Optimal calcium intake. NIH Consensus Development Panel on Optimal Calcium Intake

1994; American Medical Association; Volume: 272; Issue: 24 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.272.24.1942

1538-3598

John P. Bilezikian, Lynn B. Bailey, Patricia J. Elmer, Murray J. Favus, Vay Liang W. Go, Steven R. Goldring, Linda Hughey Holt, Karl Insogna, Barbara Kivimae Krimgold, Lawrence E. Mallette, Jay R. Shapiro, Sachiko T. St. Jeor, Paula H. Stern, Barbara C. Tilley, Monica E. Yamamoto, Steven A. Abrams, Alberto Ascherio, John A. Baron, Norman H. Bell, Elizabeth A. Chrischilles, Bess Dawson‐Hughes, Robert P. Heaney, Michael F. Holick, C. Conrad Johnston, Michael Kleerekoper, Jacob Lemann, Richard J. Levine, Robert S. Lindsay, Anne C. Looker, B Love, Robert Marcus, Velimir Matkovic, L. Joseph Melton, Pierre J. Meunier, Juan M. Navia, Dorothy A. Nelson, Eric Orwoll, William A. Peck, Robert R. Recker, Lawrence M. Resnick, B. Lawrence Riggs, Frederick R. Singer, Charles W. Slemenda, MaryFran Sowers, Connie M. Weaver, Sanford A. Miller, Walter C. Willett, Lawrence Shulman, Elia Ben-Ari, Elsa A. Bray, Mona S. Calvo, Nancy D. Ernst, John H. Ferguson, Gilman D. Grave, John G. Haddad, William H. Hall, Stephen P. Heyse, Van S. Hubbard, Joan McGowan, Marjorie Perloff, Ellyn J. Pollack, Maryann Reford, Pamela E. Stark-Reed,

Bone health and osteoporosis research

IT HAS BEEN a decade since the 1984 Consensus Development Conference on Osteoporosis first suggested that increased intake of calcium might help prevent osteoporosis. Osteoporosis affects more than 25 million people in the United States and is the major underlying cause of bone fractures in postmenopausal women and the elderly. Previous surveys have revealed that the US population experiences more than 1.5 million fractures annually at a cost in excess of $10 billion per year to the health care system. Two important factors that influence the occurrence of osteoporosis are optimal peak bone mass attained in the first two to three decades of life and the rate at which bone is lost in later years. Adequate calcium intake is critical to achieving optimal peak bone mass and modifies the rate of bone loss associated with aging. A number of publications have addressed the possible role of calcium intake in the