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Effect of calcium supplementation is greater in prepubertal girls with low calcium intake
1College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
Nutrition Reviews
|November 14, 1997
Abstract:
In a recent calcium supplementation trial, prepubertal girls with spontaneous calcium intake below 900 mg/day, when given additional calcium, had greater increases in bone mineral density than other girls. This lends support to the recently recommended Adequate Intake (AI) of 1300 mg/day calcium for American and Canadian children, although more studies on long-term effects of this intake level are still needed.