{"id":34666,"date":"2022-04-27T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=34666"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:08:33","slug":"calcium-supplements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2022\/04\/27\/calcium-supplements\/","title":{"rendered":"Calcium Supplements Could Spell Trouble for Older Heart Valve Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many patients, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2016\/09\/15\/calcification\/\">heart valve calcification<\/a> is public enemy number one.\u00a0 A calcified heart valve can lead to severe stenosis, debilitating symptoms, major health risks and death.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I often receive the following question from patients, &#8220;Hi Adam &#8211; If calcium build-up on my valve is bad, should I stop taking calcium supplements?&#8221;\u00a0 Although I had previously heard that calcium supplements do not pose a potential threat to heart valve patients, new research from the Cleveland Clinic may be challenging that notion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/calcium-supplements-heart-valve.jpg\" alt=\"Calcium Supplements Heart Valve Disease\" width=\"350\" height=\"520\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In fact, people taking either calcium supplements alone or calcium with vitamin D had a higher risk of heart-related death or death from any cause compared with people not taking supplements, the researchers reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consultqd.clevelandclinic.org\/supplemental-calcium-tied-to-increased-mortality-and-avr-in-older-patients-with-aortic-stenosis\">Click here to read &#8220;Supplemental Calcium Tied to Increased Mortality in Older Patients with Aortic Stenosis&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-surgery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41658,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34666\/revisions\/41658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}