Calcium and Reduced Risk of Falling

• Calcium, vitamin D, or combined supplementation to prevent fractures and falls: systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2026-05-20
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 9,067
  • BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 393
  • • Olivier Massé
    • Claudia Mei Mercurio
    • Sébastien Dupuis
    • Maya Al Sahwi
    • Alexandra Arruda
    • Gabriel Dallaire
    • Katherine Desforges
    • Nicolas Dugré
    • David Williamson

  • PubMed: 42161415
  • DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2025-088050

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Risk of Falling

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Calcium, vitamin D, or combined supplementation appeared to have little to no effect on other fracture and fall outcomes, based largely on moderate to high certainty of evidence.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No