Calcium, vitamin D and aortic valve calcification: to the bone or to the heart?
Intuitively, one might think that supplementing vitamins and minerals would be the right thing to do especially in older and comorbid people. Every year, billions of dollars are spent in this belief.1
Supplemental calcium and vitamin D and long-term mortality in aortic stenosis
Objective Calcium metabolism has long been implicated in aortic stenosis (AS). Studies assessing the long-term safety of oral calcium and/or vitamin D in AS are scarce yet imperative given the rising