Brief Reports
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2015.582

Dietary calcium intake in a cohort of elderly patients already in drug therapy for osteoporosis. Is it possible and how to modify the eating habits before calcium supplementation?

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Received: 16 January 2015
Accepted: 16 February 2015
Published: 4 August 2015
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Calcium intake, osteoporosis, diet.

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Ciro Manzo
cirmanzo@libero.it
Rheumatological Outpatient Clinic, Mariano Lauro Hospital, Sant'Agnello (NA), Italy.
Maria Teresa Russo
Orthopedic Outpatient Clinic, Mariano Lauro Hospital, Sant'Agnello (NA), Italy.
Inadequate intake of calcium via the diet is very common in patients taking drugs for osteoporosis. We have evaluated 302 consecutive elderly patients (68.6 median age) attending our Rheumatological and Orthopedic Outpatient Clinics using a questionnaire for evaluation of dietary calcium intake. Two hundred and forty of these had a questionnaire score 7 in 205/240 after an average period of 3-6 months. In the 35 patients in which this was not possible, the exact knowledge of calcium dietary intake (poor or absent) has allowed a tailored calcium supplementation.

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Dietary calcium intake in a cohort of elderly patients already in drug therapy for osteoporosis. Is it possible and how to modify the eating habits before calcium supplementation?. (2015). Italian Journal of Medicine, 10(1), 42-44. https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2015.582