{"publication_id":"798fcdb7-5e51-43e8-978e-937dfca0ad1c","screening":{"identified":36,"screened":36,"excluded":0,"included":36,"included_or_retained":36,"flow":["identified","screened","excluded_with_reasons","included"],"wording":"36 candidate receipts retained after source retrieval, deduplication, and topic filtering. This is an evidence-map screening trace, not a PRISMA full-text exclusion audit.","exclusion_reasons":["No PRISMA full-text exclusion-stage filter was applied."]},"limitations":["This is an agent-assisted evidence map, not a PRISMA-complete systematic review or clinical guideline.","It is not PROSPERO-registered and should not be read as medical advice.","Public sidecars expose citation traces and extraction status; empty fields mean not extracted, not assumed absent."],"contradictions":["Calcium supplementation has long been proposed as a low-cost public-health lever for bone, cardiovascular, and pregnancy-related outcomes, yet contemporary evidence has been complicated by discrepant findings across indications, populations, and dosing regimens.","Across the corpus, the evidence base is context-dependent rather than uniformly favorable: pre-eclampsia prevention, certain insulin-related endpoints, and selected bone-fracture outcomes show benefit, while older-adult and pregnancy inflammation biomarkers, recurrent cardiovascular events, and several body-composition endpoints remain null or unfavorable, with mechanistic plausibility (Ioannidis 2005) coexisting alongside sparse or mixed human-RCT confirmation.","We conclude that calcium supplementation should not be framed as a monolithic intervention: the most defensible indications remain high-risk pregnancy, while bone-fracture benefit in community-dwelling older adults and cardiovascular safety in at-risk populations remain insufficiently resolved and warrant further direct, outcome-stratified randomized evaluation.","Direction reconciliation: receipt-level null or unclear coding is conservative claim-level coding. Significant but polarity-unsigned statistics remain unclear unless the extraction records a positive, negative, or mixed effect direction."]}