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. 2015 Jun 30;2015(6):CD010037. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010037.pub2
Methods Randomised control trial.
The trial was conducted in the United States of America.
Participants 34 healthy, normotensive adolescents.
Ethnicity: African‐American.
Age:14 ‐ 19 years.
Interventions Intervention: 1.5 grams of calcium per day.
Control group: daily placebo tablets.
Trial duration: 4 weeks.
Outcomes Ambulatory systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure.
Notes There is no information of calcium intake reported.
Participants were recruited from a high school in Los Angeles.
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk The authors reported that participants were randomly assigned to the treatment or control group.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not described
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes Unclear risk Not described
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes Low risk The ambulatory blood pressure unit measured the blood pressure every 30 minutes during the day. "Unit was placed on each participant for 24 hours."
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes Unclear risk Not reported from how many participants gave data for the results
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk The planned outcome was reported.
Other bias Unclear risk No information of baseline characteristics was reported.