Voedingsadvies El MondoResearch Question:
High vitamin D blood value lowers the chances of getting high blood pressure?
Study Design:
This overview article contained 8 prospective cohort studies with 55816 283537 participants and people with high blood pressure. The study duration ranged between 1 and 14 years.
There was no heterogeneity between the studies.
Results and conclusions:
The researchers found in 5 studies that increasing the vitamin D blood value per 10 ng/mL compared to the baseline, the chances of getting high blood pressure significantly with 12% [95% CI = 0.81-0.97] reduced.
The researchers concluded that high vitamin D blood value the chance of getting high blood pressure lowered.
Original title:
Vitamin D and risk of future hypertension: meta-analysis of 283,537 participants by Kunutsor SK, Antoinette Apekey TA and Sturgeon M.
Link:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-013-9790-2
Additional information about El Mondo:
The best way to get enough vitamin D is through sunlight and/or dietary supplements.
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