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Low Vitamin D, Higher Risk of Heart Attack
Posted Nov 23, 2009
U.S. researchers have linked
inadequate levels of vitamin D to increased risk of heart attack or stroke.
Patients with very low levels of vitamin D were 77 percent more likely to die,
45 percent more likely to develop coronary artery disease and 78 percent were
more likely to have a stroke than patients with normal levels. Patients with
very low levels of vitamin D were also twice as likely to develop heart failure
than those with normal vitamin D levels.
"This was a unique study because the association between vitamin D deficiency
and cardiovascular disease has not been well-established," one of the study
authors Dr. Brent Muhlestein of the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray,
Utah, said in a statement.
The Intermountain researchers tracked 27,686 patients age 50 and older with no
prior history of cardiovascular disease for one year. Blood vitamin D levels
were tested during routine clinical care.
Date: Nov 18, 2009
URL: www.upi.com
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
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