Calcium Supplements and High Death Rate in Women

Did anyone happen to read this article? I saw it on Yahoo news. Below is a snippet, but I'm wondering what does this mean for us or are we ok because we have issues absorbing calcium anyway?

 

For the study, published February 13 in the British Medical Journal, a team from Uppsala University in Sweden analyzed self-reported data from 61,443 women over the course of 19 years. During that time, nearly 12,000 women died, the majority from cardiovascular disease.

The highest rates of death, overall, were among women whose calcium intake was higher than 1,400 mg a day (from supplements or a combination of food and supplements, though not from food alone); those women were twice as likely to die than women getting between 600 and 999 mg. But those at the other end of the scale—getting less than 600 mg of calcium a day—also had an increased risk of death.
 

I think Kelly should answer this one, cause shed say it right, but I'm pretty sure this is for women who haven't had their insides rearranged.

I have a post on my blog about this: http://www.gastricbypasscoaching.com/study-links-calcium-sup plements-to-increased-risk-for-heart-attack/

My thoughts are, they didn't control for the type of calcium (carbonate, citrate, etc), they didn't control for the health of the subjects (maybe some had heart problems to begin with) and to my knowledge, none of them were gastric bypass patients that don't absorb much calcium at all from their food.  I don't think the results of this study apply to us at all and I'm not sure they are very useful for anyone since they didn't control for some variables.

I don't know, but my husband had triple bybass surgery two years ago and is only about 10-15 lbs overweight.  He was always told he has too much calcium, on his teeth.  He never took a supplement except for daily vitamin.   

 

Thanks for you input. I read your blog Kelly and I was thinking the same thing..thanks!!

I'm with Kelly on this one.

I'd like to add that it says the results were self-reported, so there is no way to know the dosage, type of supplements used, how often it was taken, etc. You could have people reporting that they took a certain dosage, but *****ally knows? 

I think Kelly has an excellent handle on this.  I wouldn't give it a second thought since it was clearly NOT a well-controlled medical study.

Lora