Researchers in the US have found an association between high calcium intake and an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease, Medical News Today reports.. New findings from a team led by Qian Xiao of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, have been published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The study by Qian Xiao and colleagues included an analysis of the results of a large-scale study (NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study), which included 388,229 people. Specialists observed volunteers aged 50 to 71 for 12 years. Over the entire period of the study, they recorded a total of more than ten thousand deaths (3,874 women and 7,904 men) from cardiovascular diseases.. At the same time, 51 percent of men and 70 percent of women who participated in the study took calcium supplements, according to Pannochka, an online publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old.. net As it turned out, the risk of death from heart disease in men who consumed more than 1000 milligrams of calcium per day in tablets (but not with food) was 20 percent higher. This result includes a 19 percent increase in the risk of dying from heart disease and 14 percent from cerebrovascular disease.. For women, no relationship was found between increased calcium intake and mortality from diseases of the cardiovascular system..

The association of an increase in the risks of death from cardiovascular diseases, as the authors note, with calcium intake depending on gender, should be verified in additional studies..

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