Vitamin D has made the headlines on a regular basis recently. And with good reason: The sunshine vitamin has been found to spotlight cardiovascular health.
Scientists at the Harvard Medical School worked with 1,739 participants in the Framingham Heart Study, a research project involving residents of a Massachusetts city west of Boston. People with the lowest amounts of vitamin D ran a 62% greater risk of heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular event than their peers. And another study out of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine linked low D levels with higher rates of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), or poor circulation in the legs caused by narrowed arteries.
Circulation 1/7/08; Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 4/08
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