Coronary Heart Disease
Researchers from University of North Florida Report on Findings in Coronary Heart Disease
Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 13th, 2011
2011 OCT 13 -- According to the authors of a study from Jacksonville, Florida, "Epidemiologic studies have suggested associations between vitamin D status and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. The purpose of this work was to determine if vitamin D status was predictive of CHD risk assessed by Framingham risk score (FRS) in overweight, Caucasian, postmenopausal women, using the baseline data collected in a clinical trial."
"The study comprised 178 women aged 42-67 years (mean +/- standard deviation [SD] 55.7 +/- 4.3). Fasting serum was used to analyze blood lipids and vitamin D. The status of the latter was determined based on serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D...
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