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Increased maternal calcium intake may lower systolic BP in offspring.(Ongoing Study Of 712 infants)
MIAMI BEACH -- Increasing a woman's calcium intake during pregnancy may modestly lower her offspring's blood pressure, results of a study of more than 700 6-month-old infants suggest.
When the babies' mothers were divided into quartiles based on their average daily calcium intake in pregnancy; there was a 2.4-mm Hg difference in systolic blood pressure between the top and bottom quartiles.
"Two millimeters doesn't sound like a lot, but over an entire population, 2 mm can have a significant impact on overall cardiovascular disease events," study investigator Dr. Matthew W. Gillman said at a conference on cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention sponsored by the American Heart Association.
Dr. Gillman and his colleagues evaluated 2,847 systolic blood pressure readings from 712 6-month-old infants. There were an equal number of boys and girls. The mothers completed a second-trimester-validated food frequency questionnaire, said Dr. Gillman of Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health ...
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