Low vitamin D, heart disease linked
A study conducted in Kansas University suggests that Vitamin D deficiency can cause a range of illnesses such as diabetes, blood pressure and cardiomyopathy.
Researchers studied 10,000 patients and found that 70 percent of them who had vitamin D deficiency were at a higher risk of illnesses particularly heart diseases.
"We expected to see that there was a relationship between heart disease and vitamin D deficiency; we were surprised at how strong it was," said Dr. James L. Vacek of the University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center.
Scientists also studied the reverse examining and confirmed that correcting the deficiency with supplements lowered the risk of death by 60 percent, Reuters reported.
Vacek and his team reviewed data from 10,899 adults whose vitamin D serum levels had been tested at the University of Kansas Hospital.
Studies showed that those who had vitamin D deficiency had a three-fold higher risk of death.
Previous research had indicated that 70 percent of people do not have sufficient levels of vitamin D.
Vacek says the high number of vitamin D deficient people is because ”we should get about 90 percent of our Vitamin D from the sun and only about 10 percent from our food as the human body makes vitamin D in response to skin exposure to sunlight.”
Source: presstv.ir
