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Adding to your considerations:
- Recent progress in the treatment of vascular calcification
- Calcium supplements: bad for the heart? (if I'm not wrong, this was already posted elsewhere)
- Recent progress in the treatment of vascular calcification
"There is experimental evidence that acidosis may reduce vascular calcification. In uremic rats fed a high phosphorus diet and treated with calcitriol, aortic calcification was prevented by metabolic acidosis that was induced by dietary ammonium chloride.[113] An alkaline pH augments calcification of rat aortas in culture[28] and even transient increases in pH equivalent to those occurring during hemodialysis significantly increased calcification. This raises the possibility that the practice of alkaline loading during hemodialysis may contribute to vascular calcification."
- Calcium supplements: bad for the heart? (if I'm not wrong, this was already posted elsewhere)
"Dietary calcium is taken in small amounts spread throughout the day, usually together with fat and protein. As a result, it is absorbed slowly, causing little change in serum calcium levels.[19] In contrast, the large boluses of calcium used as supplements produce substantial increases in serum calcium, frequently raising levels above the normal range.[20] Thus, if high-normal serum calcium levels can accelerate atherogenesis, then supplements might have a similar effect, by producing high-normal serum calcium levels for some hours after each dose. Similar pulses of hypercalciuria are thought to mediate the increase in stone risk with calcium, whereas dietary calcium interferes with absorption of dietary components (eg, oxalate), which themselves contribute to stone formation."