Small bowel absorption of magnesium and calcium sulphate from a natural mineral water in subjects with ileostomy.

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial looks at Calcium Sulfate.

In many developed countries, magnesium and calcium intakes do not reach recommendations for a large part of the population.

Mineral water may be a useful alternative source of dietary minerals, especially in groups of people at risk for developing deficiency due to low intakes.

Who Took Part

The age groups tagged for this paper are adults, middle-aged adults and older adults, both men and women.

A controlled randomised crossover study with two periods of two days each and a minimum 5 days of washout was performed in six ileostomy subjects.

How the Study Was Run

The researchers set it up as a randomized and crossover study.

Because people in this Calcium Sulfate study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

Each person switched between Calcium Sulfate and the comparison at some point, usually with a gap in between.

Apparent mineral absorption from 0.5 L of natural mineral water with either a high or a low mineral content consumed in the fasting state was compared.

Ileostomy effluents were sampled and analysed for magnesium, calcium and total sulphate.

What Was Measured

The subject headings attached to it are Calcium Sulfate, Calcium, Dietary, Ileostomy, Intestine, Small, Magnesium Sulfate and Mineral Waters.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized and crossover study of Calcium Sulfate.

Its findings take up roughly 5 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2006 (European journal of nutrition), a journal based in Germany.

More context: all human trials.