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Calcium Dashboard – Details by Country

El Salvador


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

Health Data

Preterm Births:

  • Lancet Estimates: Preterm Birth Rate per 100 Live Births: 8.0 [6.8-9.3] 1
  • GBD Estimates: DALYS per 100,000 [CI]: 453 [353, 582] 2

Maternal Hypertensive Disorders - DALYS & Deaths: 3

  • DALYs per 100,000: 11.73 [7.99, 16.16]
  • Deaths per 100,000: 0.16 [0.10, 0.23]

Bone Fractures Incidence Rate per 100,000 [CI]: 2428.1 [2200.9, 2657.4] 4

Diet and Food Supply

Apparent Calcium Intake: 1404.8 mg/day 5

Policies

Calcium Fortification:
No fortification policy

Antenatal Care Guidelines: 6

  • Supplementation Recommendation:
    0.6 g/day of calcium for pregnant women with risk factors for preeclampsia and low calcium intake after 16 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 - 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).

4 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).

5 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).

6 Antenatal Care Guidelines
Ministerio de Salud Pública del Ecuador. Trastornos hipertensivos del embarazo. (Actualización 2016). Published online 2016. https://www.salud.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MSP_Trastornos-hipertensivos-del-embarazo-con-portada-3.pdf