Calcium supplements INCREASE the risk of kidney stones
August 1997
A new study suggests calcium supplements INCREASE the risk of kidney stones...but dietary calcium REDUCES the risk.
At first this seems contradictory...but it might be a matter of timing.
Most kidney stones are formed by the precipitation of calcium oxalate crystals in the urine.
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