Patient adviser banking on strong bones for life: do you need calcium supplements?
expert_opinion · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 20086517.
- Also identified by DOI 10.3810/psm.2002.03.213.
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Abstract
Calcium is important for building strong teeth and bones and for preventing osteoporosis. It is especially important that adolescents and young adults get adequate amounts of calcium. In women, bone density can increase until around age 30. After that, bone mass is maintained or lost at a slow rate until menopause, when the rate of bone loss increases.