REPLY
Calcium Supplements to Prevent Bone Loss
John F. Aloia, MD
15 June 1994 | Volume 120 Issue 12 | Page 1047
IN RESPONSE:
Mr. King correctly states that the three groups of participants in our study had no statistical differences in pack-years of cigarettes smoked, although the value was higher in the placebo group [1]. Most of our participants were nonsmokers. Current cigarette smoking would be considered more pertinent in a prospective study measuring rates of bone loss, and this information was not reported in our article. Cigarettes were smoked during the study by six patients in the calcium group, nine in the estrogen, progestin, and calcium group, and only five in placebo group. These data strongly suggest that cigarette smoking did not lower the rates of bone loss in the placebo group.
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Winthrop-University Hospital; Mineola, NY 11501
1. Aloia JF, Vaswani A, Yeh JK, Ross PL, Flaster E, Dilmanian FA. Calcium supplementation with and without hormone replacement therapy to prevent postmenopausal bone loss. Ann Intern Med. 1994; 120:97-103.
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