Calcium

Adding just 1 oz of walnuts to the diets of children and adults who typically do not eat any nuts was associated with significant improvements in healthy index eating scores, a recent study showed.

Lipoprotein(a) was associated with prevalent and incident aortic valve calcification and calcium progression in participants without aortic stenosis, researchers reported.

Most adults with hypoparathyroidism had normalized calcium levels without needing a supplement after 3 months of taking a parathyroid hormone-1 receptor agonist, according to findings from phase 2a trial.

Edwards Lifesciences announced the FDA approval and launch of its new pericardial bovine valve with anti-calcification technology designed for use with the company’s transcatheter aortic heart valve system.

The presence of mitral annular calcium was not associated with worse outcomes in patients who had transcatheter aortic valve replacement, according to a retrospective analysis.

Patients with aortic stenosis who received oral calcium supplementation had lower survival rates and were more likely to need aortic valve replacement than those who did not receive supplementation, according to recent data.

Oral calcium supplementation with or without vitamin D was associated with lower survival and a greater need for aortic valve replacement among older patients with mild to moderate aortic stenosis, researchers reported.

Results of a small pilot study showed that impaired cognition was common in adults with hypothyroidism and linked to lower serum calcium levels and higher serum phosphate levels.

Elevated levels of lipoprotein(a) and coronary artery calcium were associated with risk for atherosclerotic CVD, researchers reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Postmenopausal women who received a daily prebiotic supplement years after gastric bypass saw no change in calcium absorption compared with women who received placebo, though some differential responses were observed in the prebiotic group.