Previous studies have shown a link between low vitamin D status and heart disease. Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin D activation are twice as likely as those without the variant to have congestive heart failure.
Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation
December 7th, 2009 by Newspublichealth.com
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