Hypertension summary
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Overview Overview Hypertension and Vitamin D
Overview Cardiovascular and vitamin D
Overview Stroke and vitamin D
Incidence of 22 health problems related to vitamin D have doubled in a decade
Some interesting Hypertension studies
- Hypertension risk decreased 10X by increasing vitamin D levels to more than 40 ng – Nov 2017
- Hypertension risk reduced 4X if adequate level of Vitamin D – July 2024
- COVID-19 deaths 4 to 7 X more likely if Diabetic, Hypertensive, or CVD - meta-analysis March 2020
- Magnesium reduces hypertension - FDA allows claim - Jan 2022
- Drug-resistant hypertension 3.5 X more likely if low vitamin D – March 2020
- High Blood Pressure reduced by Vitamin D supplementation in seniors and obese – meta-analysis May 2019
- Blood pressure in diabetics reduced by 12 weekly doses of 50,000 IU vitamin D – RCT Jan 2014
- Hypertension is associated with low vitamin D in some groups – meta-analysis April 2015
- Off Topic – Hypertension in 42 percent of adults (new definition: 130 mm Hg) – Feb 2018
- Men aged 40-59 59%, age >60 75%: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2017–2018
All Hypertension articles
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- More than 50% increase per decade: asthma, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, etc. - 2025
- 17 Ways to Cut Your Risk of Stroke, Dementia and Depression (Vitamin D cuts 10 of them) - April 2025
- Vitamin D, minerals (Mg, Ca, K, Phosphate, Na, Fe, Zn, Cl, Se) and health – 15 studies 2024
- Vitamin D Roles - more than just help the immune system
- Magnesium raised Vitamin D, lowered blood pressure and Ca to Mg ratio – RCT Sept 2024
- Magnesium Depletion Score predicts increased risk of various health problems
- Low Vitamin D is a top predictor of adverse events during pregnancy – Feb 2024
- Death after pre-hypertension 4X more likely if very low Vitamin D – Feb 2024
- Stroke 3 times more likely if dark skin woman has Hypertension before age 35 - Feb 2024
- Arteries and Atherosclerosis and Vitamin D - many studies
- 4 Cardiovascular diseases are associated with little vitamin D getting to cells – May 2023
- Preeclampsia reduced by 33 percent if high vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2023
- Magnesium reduces hypertension - FDA allows claim - Jan 2022
- Blood pressure reduced if take more than 4.5 grams of Omega-3 daily– umbrella meta-analysis Aug 2022
- Health problems running in family may be due to poor vitamin D (hypertension, VDR in this case) Sept 2022
- Risk of preeclampsia should drop to nearly zero at 60 ng of Vitamin D – July 2022
- Hypertension reduced by Vitamin D if taken daily to every 14 days by who were deficient – June 2022
- Hypertension reduced by Magnesium plus 3,000 IU of vitamin D for 12 weeks – RCT July 2022
- Hypertension during pregnancy: low Vitamin D, poor Vit. D genes – June 2022
- More Magnesium needed to decrease diabetes, cardio, HT (body weight has increased) - March 2021
- Hypertension treatment needs at least 600 mg of Magnesium (49 trials) – Jan 2021
- The Role of Magnesium in the Pathogenesis of Metabolic Disorders – April 2022
- COVID and CVD deadly pandemics share a risk factor: low vitamin D - April 2022
- Low Vitamin D associated with preeclampsia - meta-analysis Feb 2022
- Low Vitamin D associated with pre-eclampsia -40th meta-analysis – Feb 2022
- Preeclampsia reduced by Vitamin D - many studies
- A small amount of Vitamin D for a short time does not help (2800 IU, 8 weeks) – RCT Oct 2021
- Preeclampsia (hypertension while pregnant) varies with season (O.R. 0.57) – June 2021
- COVID-19 hospitalizations: 63% associated with diabetes, obesity, hypertension or heart failure – Feb 2021
- 2.7 X more likely to die COVID-19 if too much Sodium (associated with low vitamin D) - March 2021
- Less sun (less vitamin D), 1.4 X higher risk of hypertension – Feb 2021
- 26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D
- Molecular reason why low vitamin D can result in hypertension (in rats) – Dec 2020
- Vitamin D deficiency associated with increased risk of many health problems in 58,000,000 Americans - Nov 2020
- Drug-resistant hypertension 3.5 X more likely if low vitamin D – March 2020
- COVID-19 deaths 4 to 7 X more likely if Diabetic, Hypertensive, or CVD - meta-analysis March 2020
- Hypertension 2X more likely if poor CYP24A1 vitamin D gene (China) – Jan 2020
- Vitamin D does not reduce blood pressure in healthy people (no hypertension, etc) – Meta-analysis Jan 2020
- Pulmonary Hypertension deaths prevented by 80 ng of Vitamin D (in rats) – July 2017
- Hypertension risk increased 2.1 X if poor Vitamin D Receptor – Dec 2019
- Preeclampsia (low vitamin D) doubles the risk of later cardiovascular problems – Sept 2019
- Preeclampsia 11X more likely if poor Vitamin D Binding Protein (South Africa) - Sept 2019
- Helicobacter pylori infection and low vitamin D – many studies
- Hypertension, Vitamin D, and Vitamin D Receptor – Aug 2019
- Hypertension 2X more likely as a youth if low vitamin D for first 3 years of life – June 2019
- Increased health problems in blacks is similar to that of low vitamin D whites (John Singleton Stroke)
- Hypertension 3.1 X more likely in males with poor CPY24A1 gene (but 2.5 X less likely for females) – May 2019
- High Blood Pressure reduced by Vitamin D supplementation in seniors and obese – meta-analysis May 2019
- Vitamin D reduced only the systolic blood pressure in T2DM – Meta-analysis April 2019
- Preeclampsia 2X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – April 2019
- Hypertension gene expression reduced by high-dose vitamin D (hypertensive rats) – March 2019
- Preeclampsia reduced 1.7 X by aspirin (but reduced 7 X by Vitamin D) – Feb 2018
- Hypertension not reduced much if use less than 5,000 IU of Vitamin D – meta-analysis June 2018
- Blood pressure 4 mm lower if Omega-3 index was high – March 2018
- Reduce blood pressure by 9 mm with triple hypertensive drug or 19 mm with Magnesium – April 2018
- Preeclampsia risk reduced 7X by 4,000 IU of Vitamin D daily – RCT March 2018
- Off Topic – Hypertension in 42 percent of adults (new definition: 130 mm Hg) – Feb 2018
- Hypertension nonconventional therapies: Magnesium, melatonin, Vitamin C, etc. – Jan 2018
- Preeclampsia of offspring cut in half if mother who smoked had vitamin D fortified margarine – Dec 2017
- Probiotiocs (yogurt, etc) reduce hypertension – 2017
- Hypertension risk decreased 10X by increasing vitamin D levels to more than 40 ng – Nov 2017
- Blood pressure reduced by monthly 100,000 IU of vitamin D in those who were deficient – RCT Oct 2017
- Preeclampsia reduced 2X by Vitamin D, by 5X if also add Calcium – meta-analysis Oct 2017
- Cardiovascular problems reduced by low dose aspirin and perhaps Omega-3 (also Vit K) – Sept 2017
- Activated vitamin D (Calcitriol) substantially reduced elderly blood pressure in 6 weeks – Oct 2016
- Hypertension is more likely in those with darker skins (low vitamin D) 2017
- Child 49 percent higher risk of being overweight if preeclampsia during pregnancy – Sept 2017
- Hypertension which remains high (nondipper) is associated with low vitamin D – Sept 2017
- Preeclampsia risk reduced 60 percent if supplement with Vitamin D (they ignored dose size) – meta-analysis Sept 2017
- Preeclampsia recurrence reduced 2 X by 50,000 IU of vitamin D every two weeks – RCT July 2017
- Preeclampsia is not reduced by vitamin D (if you ignore vitamin D level, dose size, frequency and duration) – July 2017
- Preeclampsia doubles the risk of mild cognitive impairment – July 2017
- No Preeclampsia during pregnancy if more than 60 ng of vitamin D – RCT July 2013
- Pulmonary hypertension reduced in some people with weekly 50,000 IU vitamin D for 3 months – 2016
- Preeclampsia changes to Vitamin D Binding Protein reduces Vitamin D in placenta – Dec 2016
- Preeclampsia risk reduced by higher levels of vitamin D (VDAART 4,400 IU) - RCT Nov 2016
- Hypertension 1.7 times more likely if low Vitamin D AND K – Sept 2016
- 2000 IU of vitamin D for just 2 weeks helped in many ways – RCT June 2016
- Blood pressure is reduced by more than 800 IU of vitamin D – meta-analysis Aug 2016
- Hypertension 5 X more likely if low Vitamin D, A, Calcium and Magnesium – June 2016
- Upsurge in Metabolic diseases may be due to low vitamin D – May 2016
- MAGNESIUM IN MAN - IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE – review 2015
- Preeclampsia 4X less likely if vitamin D levels increased by 8 ng during pregnancy – March 2016
- Preeclampsia 2X more likely if low vitamin D, unless adjust for vitamin D factors (BMI, skin color) – Dec 2015
- Heart disease 2.9 X more likely if essential hypertension person has low vitamin D – Jan 2016
- Preeclampsia and eclampsia associated with lower vitamin D, etc. – Sept 2015
- Major heart problems if have less than 15 ng of Vitamin D – Nov 2015
- Vascular dementia (after strokes) 32X more likely in Hypertensives with low vitamin D – Oct 2015
- Preeclampsia increased risk of Congenital Heart Defects by 60 percent (vitamin D not mentioned) Oct 2015
- Preeclampsia reduced by Vitamin D (50,000 IU bi-weekly) and Calcium – Oct 2015
- Prehypertension risk is increased by 78% if low Magnesium – Aug 2015
- Burka clothing reduces vitamin D levels, which causes pregnancy problems – Oct 2015
- Cardiovascular Disease and vitamin D – no proof yet – Sept 2015
- Hypertension not reduced by drugs (Resistant Hypertension) in patients with low vitamin D
- Hypertension is associated with low vitamin D in some groups – meta-analysis April 2015
- Preeclampsia – hypothesis as to why vitamin D helps – June 2015
- Cardiovascular Diseases and Vitamin D – Review Feb 2015
- Preeclampsia inversely proportional to serum Magnesium – Oct 2014
- Stroke is 13.5 X more likely if low vitamin D and high blood pressure – March 2015
- Hypertension in pregnancy (preeclampsia) more frequent in winter (low vitamin D) – Jan 2015
- Off topic – Hypertension and statin pain reduced by Coenzyme Q10 – 2010
- Hypertension reduced by Omega-3, especially if previously untreated – meta-analysis July 2014
- Arterial stiffness reduced by a single dose of 100,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Dec 2014
- Hypertension 1.5X more likely if low level of Magnesium - Oct 2014
- Hypertension reduction sometimes needs more than 4,000 IU of vitamin D for 6 months – RCT Oct 2014
- What Do We Know and Do Not Know About Vitamin D and hypertension – Sept 2014
- Hypertension, Vitamin D Receptor, and FokI gene – Editorial Aug 2014
- Probiotics reduces blood pressure, but not as much as vitamin D does – meta-analysis July 2014
- Hypertension not reduced by adding vitamin D to patients who had enough vitamin D – RCT June 2014
- Hypertension associated with genes which reduce vitamin D – meta-analysis June 2014
- Hypertension (both systolic and diastolic) reduced with 2,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT June 2014
- Blood pressure in diabetics reduced by 12 weekly doses of 50,000 IU vitamin D – RCT Jan 2014
- The relationship between vitamin D deficiency and pulmonary hypertension – 2013
- Resistant Hypertension incidence increased 2X in 20 years – vitamin D might help
- Preeclampsia rate cut in half by high level of vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2014
- Hypothesis- Metabolic disease is due to Tissue Renin-Angiotensin Systems – Feb 2014
- Preeclampsia 40 percent less likely if mother had more than 20 ng of vitamin D – Jan 2014
- More Hypertension in obese children with low vitamin D, especially at night – Dec 2013
- Not enough vitamin D in milk to reduce hypertension (no surprise)– RCT Dec 2013
- Vitamin D needed for many months to reduce blood pressure – RCT Nov 2013
- Preeclampsia 2.7X more frequent if low vitamin D – meta-analysis Sept 2013
- Hypertension once again proven to not be reduced by 1,000 IU of vitamin D – Aug 2013
- During pregnancy even 400 IU helps metabolic status – RCT July 2013
- 8 percent less chance of hypertension with 10 percent increase in Vitamin D - June 2013
- Postmenopausal vitamin D benefits to blood pressure and kidney – Review July 2013
- 2X more preeclampsia when vitamin D less than 30 ng, etc. - meta-analysis March 2013
- Off topic: US and NZ permit drug advertising on TV, none permit tobacco advertising
- Hypertension 30 percent more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2013
- Higher weight and blood pressure in second generation from mother mouse who had low vitamin D – 2012
- Vitamin D and Arterial Hypertension: Treat the Deficiency - Feb 2013
- Hypertension reduced in mice on high fat diet by adding vitamin D for 6 weeks– Jan 2013
- Vitamin D different relationship between whites and blacks for bone and plaque – June 2012
- Metabolic Syndrome in children is associated with low vitamin D – review Jan 2013
- Daily average of 3600 IU Vitamin D helped hypertensives – Jan 2013
- Vitamin D associated with 50 percent less ischemic stroke – meta-analysis Aug 2012
- Low Vitamin D or Vitamin K2 may be a cause of Hypertension and Osteoporosis – Nov 2012
- Hypertension
- Hypertension experts want still more vitamin D proof – Oct 2012
- Hypertension showed no association with vitamin D levels less than 34 ng – Aug 2012
- Hypertension 2X more likely when vitamin D levels lower than 14 ng – meta-analysis May 2012
- 7X increase in early severe preeclampsia associated with low vitamin D – Aug 2012
- 200 IU of Vitamin D does not prevent preeclampsia – RCT Aug 2012
- 3000 IU reduced hypertension for the vitamin D insufficient – RCT Aug 2012
- Hypertension inversely related to vitamin D in whites but not blacks – July 2012
- Hypertension reduced 6.8 mmHg with 3,000 IU of vitamin D daily – RCT May 2012
- Preeclampsia 3X more likely if low vitamin D at 25th week – April 2012
- Vitamin D3 vs serum D3 (Calcitriol, HyD) – Jan 2012
- More sunlight, more vitamin D, less hypertension - Feb 2012
- Hypertension associated with low Calcium levels– Oct 2011
- Vitamin D accounts for 25 percent of the racial differences in blood pressure – Oct 2011
- Systolic blood pressure reduced by vitamin D (many studies)
- Prehypertension 48 percent more likely with low vitamin D – Sept 2011
- High blood pressure associated with high level of Calcium in blood – Oct 2011
- Caucasian youths low on vitamin D were more likely to have hypertension – July 2011
- All hypertension patients should have vitamin D levels measured – 2010
- Low vitamin D results in severe preeclampsia and low birth weight – Mar 2011
- Births during times of little sun associated with increased hypertension – April 2011
- Link between vitamin D and hypertension not yet completely understood – April 2011
- 2X more likely to have hypertension if less than 15 ng – March 2011
- Pre-diabetes and hypertension 2.4X more common when less than 30 ng of vitamin D – Jan 2011
- Meta-analysis found hypertension reduced with vitamin D – Dec 2010
- Vitamin D reduced blood pressure in random controlled trials – Nov 2010
- Overview Hypertension and Vitamin D
- Systolic hypertension 4X more likely if low on vitamin D 14 years before – Nov 2010
- Women with low vitamin D 4X more likely to have preeclampsia in pregnancy – Nov 2010
- Hypothesis that lack of vitamin D increases blood pressure in blacks – July 2010
- Seasonal variation on preeclampsia is correlated with sunlight intensity - June 2010
- Does vitamin d deficiency cause hypertension?
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