To show the importance of calcium dosage in postmenopausal women is the aim of this study. It is a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study which took place over one month. The study population is made up of one hundred (100) menopausal women aged 50 and over, admitted to the laboratory of the Suru-Léré Zone Hospital. Excluded from the study are postmenopausal women living with HIV and patients undergoing treatment. The spectrophotometer was used to measure blood calcium in the samples taken. The result at the end of this work was that the average age is 58.37± 8.01 years; the average body mass index of the general population is 27.84 ± 6.45Kg/m2 , which represents overweight. 35% of the study population is obese with an average of 34.3 ± 5.3 and 29% is overweight with an average of 27.88± 1.3. A total of 64% of the patients are overweight. Although 86% of the study population have normal blood calcium levels. We also observed a significant prevalence of hypocalcaemia which is 13% in the study population. In addition, our results showed that daily calcium intake is below the French recommendations. A strong awareness of the importance of calcium is therefore essential.
