News
Vitamin D may improve colorectal cancer survival
10 September 2009
Higher blood levels of vitamin D may double survival rates of colorectal cancer patients, suggests a new US study.
01 October 2014
A new study suggests that vitamin D deficiency may be linked to abnormalities of the heart’s electrical activity.
The observational study investigated a potential link between blood vitamin D concentrations of 5,108 participants and their electrocardiography (ECG) recordings, measuring the heart’s electrical activity, over 13 years (1). The study results showed that 5.9% of participants who had sufficient vitamin D levels (above 40 ng/ml) had ECG abnormalities, while eleven percent with insufficient levels (between 20 and 40 ng/ml) and 13% with vitamin D deficiency (less than 20 ng/ml) showed major ECG abnormalities. Participants who were vitamin D deficient had a 136% increased risk of having ECG major abnormalities.
The researchers commented that vitamin D deficiency may be an independent factor for predicting electrocardiography abnormalities, signs of heart disease. Vitamin D receptors are located throughout the heart, indicating that vitamin D plays a role in the functioning of the heart. Numerous mechanisms have been discovered for vitamin D’s role in heart health (2–4).
10 September 2009
Higher blood levels of vitamin D may double survival rates of colorectal cancer patients, suggests a new US study.
7 December 2015
As part of the Food4Me pan-European project, a new sampling and analysis procedure for vitamin D has been developed. The technique enables unsupervised sampling of drops of blood from a fingertip onto a prepared card. A total of 3,778 valid measurements were made from 1,465 participants. The highest mean levels of vitamin D were found towards the end of July, whilst the lowest were towards the end of January. This is consistent with previous population survey data.
18 June 2014
A new study from Turkey found that severe vitamin D deficiency is very common in pregnant women and their newborns.