{"id":188866,"date":"2021-12-07T01:57:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/how-vitamin-d-improves-cardiovascular-health\/"},"modified":"2021-12-07T01:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:27:23","slug":"how-vitamin-d-improves-cardiovascular-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/how-vitamin-d-improves-cardiovascular-health\/","title":{"rendered":"How Vitamin D Improves Cardiovascular Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Australian Center for Precision Health at UniSA at SAHMRI <strong>have identified genetic evidence of the role of vitamin D deficiency in causing cardiovascular disease<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which is published in the European Heart Journal, suggests that people with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to suffer from heart disease and higher blood pressure than those with normal vitamin D levels. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For participants with the lowest concentrations, the risk of heart disease <strong>was more than double that observed for those with sufficient concentrations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Reduce the global burden of disease<\/h2>\n<p>This large-scale Mendelian study used a new genetic approach that allowed the team to assess how increased levels may affect CVD risk based on how high the participants&#8217; actual vitamin D levels were. <strong>The study used information from up to 267,980 people<\/strong>, which allowed the team to provide robust statistical evidence for the link between vitamin D deficiency and cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<p>The principal investigator, the professor <strong>Elina hypp\u00f6nen<\/strong> from UniSA, says that appreciating the role of vitamin D deficiency in heart health could help reduce the global burden of cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 -->\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Australian Center for Precision Health at UniSA at SAHMRI have identified genetic evidence of the role of vitamin D deficiency in causing cardiovascular disease. The study, which is published in the European Heart Journal, suggests that people with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":188867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/97f674\/2-vitamind\/840_560.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}