Vitamin D may protect against heart attack -study

Reuters ^ | 10 June 2008 | Will Dunham

[Fractal Trader]

Men with low levels of vitamin D have an elevated risk for a heart attack, researchers said on Monday in the latest study to identify important possible health benefits from the "sunshine vitamin."

In the study, men classified as deficient in vitamin D were about 2 1/2 times more likely to have a heart attack than those with higher levels of the vitamin.

"Those with low vitamin D, on top of just being at higher risk for heart attack in general, were at particularly high risk to have a fatal heart attack," study author Dr. Edward Giovannucci of the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston said in a telephone interview.

The study involved 454 health professionals ages 40 to 75 who had suffered a nonfatal heart attack or died of heart disease, as well as 900 other men with no history of cardiovascular disease. They were followed for 10 years after providing blood samples to measure their vitamin D levels.

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The body makes vitamin D when the skin is exposed to sunlight. Milk commonly is fortified with it, and it is found in fatty fish like salmon.

Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium and is considered important for bone health. In adults, vitamin D deficiency can lead to osteoporosis, and it can lead to rickets in children.

A number of recent studies have indicated vitamin D also may offer a variety of other health benefits, including protecting against types of cancer including colon and breast cancer, peripheral artery disease and tuberculosis.

[Fractal Trader]

FYI

[traderrob6]

That’s one of the main reasons so many more heart attacks happen in the cold winter months. It’s not snow shoveling as the so called “experts” theorized.

[Sicon]

Correlation is not causation PING!

[Global2010]

Ping.

[Global2010]

Been spreading the word up here in the PNW (ain't no sunshine) for folks to get a blood test to check levels. My new Doc tested me and I was 11.4 the exceptable range is <30 to 100>. Feel soooo much better being on regulated doses of D and having other health issues addressed, like a new breath of life and energy. Sun, oxygon and water have a whole new respect from me as essential to life elements.

[Wonder Warthog]

The folks who started the “don’t expose yourself to sunlight ‘cause you might get skin cancer” have a LOT to answer for.

[LomanBill]

>>The folks who started the “don’t expose yourself to sunlight

>>‘cause you might get skin cancer” have a LOT to answer for.

 

Hmmmm....  I wonder if all those chemicals being baked into the skin by UV radiation has a teency weency effect upon increasing the incidence of skin cancer?

 

Why don't dogs get skin cancer?  Sheep?  Cattle?  hmmmmm.

 

 

"Buy more sunscreen"   Bee Happy.

 

 

Bzzzzz.

[neverdem]

THANKS, BFL

[neverdem]

25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Risk of Myocardial Infarction in Men

[grey_whiskers]

Thanks, dude.

I've been taking vitamin D supplements for 6 months now.

Cheers!