Medical News: Risk of MI May Go Up With Calcium Supplements – in Cardiovascular, Myocardial Infarction from MedPage Today

Calcium supplementation appears to increase the risk of myocardial infarction, a meta-analysis showed.

Among studies of patients with or at risk for osteoporosis, those who took calcium supplements were about 30% more likely to have an MI than those who did not, Ian Reid, MD, of the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and colleagues reported online in BMJ.

Among randomized controlled trials with patient-level data, the hazard ratio for MI with supplementation was 1.31 (95% CI 1.02 to 1.67). Among those with trial-level data, the relative risk was 1.27 (95% CI 1.01 to 1.59).