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Objective. To investigate the association between long term intake of dietary and supplemental calcium and death from all causes and cardiovascular disease.

Design. Prospective longitudinal cohort study.

Setting. Swedish mammography cohort, a population based cohort established in 1987-90.

Participants. 61,433 women (born between 1914 and 1948) followed-up for a median of 19 years.

Main Outcome Measures. Primary outcome measures, identified from registry data, were time to death from all causes (n=11,944) and cause specific cardiovascular disease (n=3862), ischaemic heart disease (n=1932), and stroke (n=1100). ...

Medical Psychologists Should Adopt Prescribing Standards That Set Us Apart From Other Prescribers

By John Caccavale, Ph.D. ABMP

Medical psychologists who also prescribe have an opportunity to provide consumers with a clear distinction of why we ought to be primary mental healthcare providers. Doing this is actually quite simple while giving all healthcare providers a model for prescribing that is based on standards developed from the best available science. The following standards are not finite but do give a ...

The Prevalence of Celiac Disease in the United States

The prevalence of celiac disease (CD) in the United States is unknown. We sought to estimate CD prevalence nationwide by using a nationally representative sample.

This study included 7,798 persons aged 6 years or older who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009–2010. Serum samples from all participants were tested for immunoglobulin A (IgA) tissue transglutaminase antibodies and, if findings were abnormal, also for IgA endomysial antibodies. Information about prior ...