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Calcium Dashboard – Details by Country

Colombia


Country Typology: Low disease risk, high intervention/policy environment

Health Data

Preterm Births:

  • Lancet Estimates: Preterm Birth Rate per 100 Live Births: 9.0 [8.5-9.6] 1
  • GBD Estimates: DALYS per 100,000 [CI]: 372 [290, 493] 2

Maternal Hypertensive Disorders - Preclampsia & Eclampsia Incidence: 3

  • % of Preeclampsia Cases: 7.20%
  • % of Eclampsia Cases: NR
  • % of Combined Preeclampsia and Eclampsia: NR

Maternal Hypertensive Disorders - DALYS & Deaths: 4

  • DALYs per 100,000: 16.48 [12.38, 21.63]
  • Deaths per 100,000: 0.23 [0.16, 0.31]

Bone Fractures Incidence Rate per 100,000 [CI]: 2118.5 [1908.3, 2326.7] 5

Diet and Food Supply

Calcium Intake: mg/day () 6

Apparent Calcium Intake: 687.2 mg/day 7

Policies

Calcium Fortification: 8
• Mandatory fortification of Wheat flour (1.28mg/kg)

Antenatal Care Guidelines: 9

  • Supplementation Recommendation:
    1.2 g/day of calcium for all pregnant women after 14 weeks of gestation
  • Food-Based Recommendation:
    No recommendation

References:

1 Preterm Births - Lancet Estimates
Ohuma EO, Moller A-B, Bradley E, et al. National, regional, and global. estimates of preterm birth in 2020, with trends from 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet 2023; 402: 1261–71.

2 Preterm Births - GBD Estimates
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). GBD Compare Data Visualization. Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2021. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington, 2023. Available from http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare. (Accessed 7/23/2025). For terms and conditions of use, please visit http://www.healthdata.org/about/terms-and-conditions

3 Maternal Hypertensive Disorders - Preclampsia & Eclampsia Incidence
Romero X., Montserrat U., Porras-Ramirez A., et al. (2022) Epidemiological characteristics of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy in a high-risk population.Revista Brasileira de Saude Materno Infantil. 22(3):497-505.

4 Maternal Hypertensive Disorders - DALYS & Deaths
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). GBD Compare Data Visualization. Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2021. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington, 2023. Available from http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare. (Accessed 9/16/2024).

5 Bone Fractures
Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network. Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (GBD 2021). Seattle, United States: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2022. Available from https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results/. (Accessed 7/18/2025).

6 Calcium Intake
Suarez‐Ortegón MF, Mosquera M, Caicedo DM, De Plata CA, Méndez F. Nutrients intake as determinants of blood lead and cadmium levels in Colombian pregnant women. Am J Hum Biol 2013;25:344–50.

7 Apparent Calcium Intake
Updated for 2022 based on: Lividini, K., Masters, W.A. Tracing global flows of bioactive compounds from farm to fork in nutrient balance sheets can help guide intervention towards healthier food supplies. Nat Food 3, 703–715 (2022).

8 Calcium Fortification
Minister of Health. Decree Number 1944 of 1996 (October 28). Colombia. 28/October/1996. From: Global Fortification Data Exchange. Accessed 11 October 2024. [http://www.fortificationdata.org.]

9 Antenatal Care Guidelines
Ministério da Saúde do Brasil. Manual de gestação de alto risco. Ministério da Saúde; 2023.