calcium group

In the third year of the study, there were 10 vertebral compression fractures for each 100 women taking calcitriol and 32 in the calcium group.

Improvement in the calcium group exceeded that of the placebo group in every category studied, both psychological and physical, and in 15 of the 17 symptoms evaluated.

Most significantly, subjects in the calcium group noted a 54 percent reduction in aches and pains, while the placebo group had a 15 percent increase in pain symptoms.

The calcium group had 18% fewer noncancerous polyps and 35% fewer advanced polyps - those with features that have a higher potential to become colorectal cancer - compared with the placebo group.

For example, the tumour yields in the dimethylhydrazine group and the dimethylhydrazine plus small bowel resection plus calcium group were very similar but the distal colonic CCPR differed by a factor of x2.

By the third cycle, Dr. Thys-Jacobs and her collaborators reported in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the overall severity of symptoms was reduced by 48 percent in the calcium group, compared with 30 percent in the placebo group.