Just published in Pharmacogenomics.is a new study further suggesting a link between Vitamin D and Heart disease.
In this study, researchers found that a variant in a specific gene ( CYP27B1) was associated with congestive heart failure, in people who have high blood pressure.
this certainly corroborates previous information on the link between vitamin D deficiency with an increased risk for heart disease. Now the exciting thing about this study is that they are specifically looking at the relationship between our genes and vitamin D.
A new study has shown once again that patients who have lymphoma are more likely to die if they have low vitamin D levels.
At the recent American Society of Hematology meetings, a new study was presented showing this relationship.
From 2002 to 2008 the scientists evaluated vitamin D blood levels from 374 newly diagnosed patients with diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma. This type of lymphoma accounts for about 40% of all lymphomas.
The study showed that at diagnosis, half that patients were deficient in vitamin D. In this case the definition of deficiency was less than 25 ng /ml.
I have been very busy finalizing my vitamin D DDT and doing radio interviews, and have not taken the time to write blog entries for the last few weeks.
More and more information is coming out on vitamin D almost every day. We see it in the news on a regular basis.
I am back on the blog path and will be putting blog entries regularly again.
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