July 11th, 2008 
Von by Polly Curtis
Doctors are recommending that people over 50 take supplements of calcium to reduce the risk of bone damage if they fall as a study in Lancet medical journal suggests that daily pills can prevent one in four fractures in the over-50s.
The findings will add to the increasing numbers of pills many older people are recommended to take and renew suggestions that some should consider a daily “polypill”, including cholesterolbusting statins, aspirins and calcium.
University of Western Sydney scientists pooled the results of 17 studies involving more than 50,000 people over 50 who were given calcium supplements.
They discovered that supplements reduced the risk of fractures by 12% but when the proper dose of 1200mg was taken every day the risk was reduced by 24%. (more…)
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