Vitamin D intake may lower heart disease risk in dark skinned people: Study
Given population disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevalence, it is imperative to better understand individual characteristics that result in predisposition to the development of hypertension and overt cardiovascular disease.
Researchers have found in a new research that vitamin D supplementation may lower risk of heart disease among dark skinned people including African Americans. The inference is that such a simple step like making sure to get enough vitamin D could help millions of people reduce their risk of heart disease. The new study lucidated linkages between skin pigmentation, vitamin D and indicators of cardiovascular health.
The researchers will be presented the research at the American Physiological Society annual meeting during the Experimental Biology (EB) 2021 meeting, held virtually April 27-30.
"More darkly-pigmented individuals may be at greater risk of vitamin D deficiency, particularly in areas of relatively low sun exposure or high seasonality of sun exposure," said S. Tony Wolf, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Pennsylvania State University and the study's lead author. "These findings may help to explain some of the differences that we see in the risk for developing blood vessel dysfunction, hypertension and overt cardiovascular disease between ethnic groups in the United States. Although there are many factors that contribute to the development of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, vitamin D supplementation may provide a simple and cost-effective strategy to reduce those disparities."
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