[Calcium intake of osteoporotic patients in Japan].
Osteoporotic patients appear to have low calcium intake, however, their average intake was around 750-800 mg/day investigated by food frequency questionnaire in Japanese women, and it was much higher than the analysis of the 2002 National Nutrition Survey in Japan (557 +/- 270 mg/day). Calcium intakes in these patients were widely ranged from 169 to 2,021 mg/day. The minimum is so low that high bone turnover may increase fracture risk, and the maximum is so high that renal dysfunction might occur in patients treated with active vitamin D and/or calcium supplementation. Therefore, physicians should observe carefully the patient's dietary calcium intake during the treatment with active vitamin D and/or calcium administration.
Ikeda
Haruka
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Research Laboratory, Tsuji Academy of Nutrition.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002136:Calcium, Dietary / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000378:metabolism*
D002136:Calcium, Dietary