Heart attacks| Mail Online
* High blood calcium link to hardening of arteries
Older women taking calcium supplements to improve bone strength could be at higher risk of heart attacks and strokes, claim researchers.
A new study adds to previous research suggesting extra calcium - with or without vitamin D - may do more harm than good.
Hundreds of thousands of women take supplements because they are recommended for preventing osteoporosis, or thinning bones.
But a research team led by Professor Ian Reid at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, says the practice should be reassessed as it may result in more heart attacks than fractures would be prevented.
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