Calcium is essential for cell-signaling, muscle contraction, and coagulation in addition to bone maintenance.1 Given this critical role in multiple pathways potentially related to disease, a number of epidemiologic studies have been performed examining whether serum calcium is a factor in cardiovascular disease, returning associations between elevated serum calcium concentration and stroke.2 Because calcium supplementation has been studied as an intervention for osteoporosis, there is also limited randomized controlled trial data supporting a possible link between calcium and stroke risk.
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