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<strong>Milk</strong> <strong>and</strong> dairy products <strong>in</strong> human nutrition<br />

tures occurr<strong>in</strong>g before puberty, lead<strong>in</strong>g the authors to conclude that young children<br />

avoid<strong>in</strong>g milk are prone to fracture.<br />

Results of meta-analysis of trials study<strong>in</strong>g the effects of calcium with or without<br />

vitam<strong>in</strong> D on fracture prevention are mixed, depend<strong>in</strong>g on exclusion criteria, dose,<br />

<strong>and</strong> basel<strong>in</strong>e age <strong>and</strong> calcium <strong>and</strong> vitam<strong>in</strong> D status (Tang et al., 2007; Bischoff-<br />

Ferrari et al., 2007; Boonen et al., 2007). Tang et al. (2007) found that <strong>in</strong> trials that<br />

reported fracture as an outcome (17 trials, n=52 625), treatment was associated with<br />

a 12 percent risk reduction <strong>in</strong> fractures of all types (risk ratio = 0.88, 95 percent<br />

CI: 0.83–0.95; P=0.0004). The reduction <strong>in</strong> fracture risk was significantly greater<br />

(24 percent) <strong>in</strong> trials <strong>in</strong> which the compliance rate was high (P

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