Monthly Archive for December, 2009

Link between Heart Disease and Vitamin D Gene

Published
by
Dr. Soram
on December 20, 2009
in Vitamin D
. 4 Comments

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.

 

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Lymphoma patients with low vitamin D more likely to die

Published
by
Dr. Soram
on December 6, 2009
in Vitamin D
. 9 Comments

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.

 

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Behind of my Blog!

Published
by
Dr. Soram
on December 6, 2009
in Vitamin D
. 0 Comments

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.