Vitamin D findings point to new treatment for heart failure
Vitamin D findings point to new treatment for heart failure
Strong bones, a healthy immune system, protection against some types of cancer: Recent studies suggest theres yet another item for the expanding list of Vitamin D benefits. Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, keeps the heart, the bodys long-distance runner, fit for lifes demands.
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3.859 -> 5.4 million Americans suffer from heart
6.629 -> failure a debilitating and progressive
9.33 -> disease that impedes the heart's ability
11.49 -> to pump sufficient blood to the body's
13.71 -> organs one of the things that puts
16.08 -> individuals at greater risk for
17.88 -> cardiovascular disease and heart failure
20.189 -> is a deficiency in vitamin D we asked
24.3 -> simply the question how does vitamin D
27.72 -> affect heart and cardiovascular
30.179 -> functions and over these decades what
32.73 -> we've shown is there's dramatic and very
34.46 -> important effects we've shown that
37.34 -> cardiac hypertrophy or just enlargement
41.25 -> of the heart occurs in vitamin D
44.25 -> deficiency vitamin D that you would get
47.489 -> at your local drugstore is useful for
51.11 -> treating vitamin D deficiency and that
55.079 -> is important but it doesn't relate to
57.96 -> our research we know that vitamin D
61.68 -> deficiency can result in cardiovascular
65.46 -> disease but the kind of therapeutic that
72.36 -> we're interested in developing is much
76.38 -> more potent than vitamin D and would be
81.56 -> effective even in an individual who has
85.38 -> a normal vitamin D we believe at this
88.56 -> point from the studies that drugs can be
92.03 -> made which will be very effective in
96.439 -> treating heart failure
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