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PEDIATRICS Vol. 104 No. 5 November 1999, pp. 1152-1157

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS:
Calcium Requirements of Infants, Children, and Adolescents

This statement is intended to provide pediatric caregivers with advice about the nutritional needs of calcium of infants, children, and adolescents. It will review the physiology of calcium metabolism and provide a review of the data about the relationship between calcium intake and bone growth and metabolism. In particular, it will focus on the large number of recent studies that have identified a relationship between childhood calcium intake and bone mineralization and the potential relationship of these data to fractures in adolescents and the development of osteoporosis in adulthood. The specific needs of children and adolescents with eating disorders are not considered.

The following policy statement is a revision:

Optimizing Bone Health and Calcium Intakes of Infants, Children, and Adolescents

Frank R. Greer, Nancy F. Krebs Committee on Nutrition
Pediatrics 2006 117: 578-585. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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