Lower Vitamin D Status Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Nutrients 2018, 10(3), 277; doi:10.3390/nu10030277
Ren Zhou 1, Mengying Wang 1OrcID, Hui Huang 1, Wenyong Li 1, Yonghua Hu 1 and Tao Wu 1,2,
1 School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
2 Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health, Ministry of Health, Beijing 100191, China
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In recent years, accumulating evidence has supported the hypothesis that lower vitamin D status is associated with several known risk factors of stroke. However, the relationship between vitamin D and stroke is still uncertain. To explore if there was an association between vitamin D status and the risk of stroke, a systematic review and a meta-analysis were conducted by searching three databases: Pubmed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library. Following the application of inclusion and exclusion criteria, the relative risk estimates of all the included studies were pooled together to compare the risk of stroke between the lowest and the highest category of vitamin D. The Newcastle–Ottawa Scale (NOS) and the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool were used to assess the risk of bias, and the publication bias was detected by using a funnel plot and Egger’s test.
Nineteen studies were included and the pooled relative risk was 1.62 (95% CI: 1.34–1.96).
Further analysis found that vitamin D status was associated with ischemic stroke (relative risk = 2.45, 95% CI: 1.56–3.86), but not with hemorrhagic stroke (relative risk = 2.50, 95% CI: 0.87–7.15).
In conclusion, our meta-analysis supported the hypothesis that lower vitamin D status was associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke. Further studies are required to confirm this association and to explore the association among different subtypes.
VitaminDWiki – Stroke category contains
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Stroke more likely if low Vitamin D
- Stroke 74% less likely if high vitamin D (7,295 women 20-50 years old) – July 2017
- Stroke is 13.5 X more likely if low vitamin D and high blood pressure – March 2015
- Ischemic stroke 17 X more likely if low vitamin D – April 2017
- Stroke is strongly associated with Calcification of cerebral arteries (perhaps low Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Mg…) – March 2018
- Ischemic Stroke 3X more likely if Vitamin D Receptor gene change (Fok 1) – Jan 2014
Post-Stroke worse if low Vitamin D
- Poor Acute Ischemic Stroke 4X more likely if low Vitamin D - Nov 2023
- Stroke risks increased if low Vitamin D: Death 3.6 X, recurrence 5.5 X – Meta-analysis Nov 2019
- Stroke outcome at 3 months was 3X worse if bad stroke and low vitamin D – Jan 2020
- Death after Ischemic Stroke 2.5 X more likely if less than 10 ng of Vitamin D – May 2019
- Vascular dementia (after strokes) 32X more likely in Hypertensives with low vitamin D – Oct 2015
- Depression following a stroke is 2.7 X more likely if low vitamin D – Sept 2018
- Stroke incidence not associated with low Vitamin D (but stroke outcome is) – Aug 2019
Post-Stroke better if add Vitamin D
- Post-stroke Vitamin D supplementation helped in 11 ways – May 2023
- Improved recovery from ischemic stroke with Vitamin D (300,000 IU injection) – RCT June 2018
- Better outcome following Ischemic stroke if injected with 600,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Feb 2017
- Ischaemic stroke – Vitamin D doubled survival (Injection followed by monthly 60,000 IU) – RCT Aug 2016
- Stroke patients need more than 2,000 IU of vitamin D (found this time in Japan) – RCT June 2019
Post-Stroke better if Vitamin D actually gets to cells
- Resveratrol fights Parkinson, Alzheimers, Diabetes, Cardiovascular, ALS, Stroke, etc.– Nov 2018
- Stroke rehabilitation (and prevention) requires Vitamin D actually getting to cells – March 2020
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- Nerve cells and Vitamin D – many studies
- Water-soluble form of vitamins are needed for some health problems
- Post-stroke depression not reduced by 2,000 IU of vitamin D (not a surprise) – Nov 2021
- Depression is associated with stroke if low vitamin D or winter – Nov 2018
- Depression following a stroke is 2.7 X more likely if low vitamin D – Sept 2018
- Omega-3 and Vitamin D each treat many mental health problems - April 2018
- MAGNESIUM IN MAN - IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE – review 2015
- No longer depressed, but risk of stroke is still 1.7X higher (did not consider low vitamin D) – May 2015
- ALL of the top 10 health problems of women are associated with low vitamin D
- Post stroke depression 9X more likely if low vitamin D – Dec 2014
- Stroke patients with low vitamin D were 10X more likely to become depressed – Aug 2014
Stroke and Meta-analysis
- Stroke and Vitamin D meta-analyses - many studies
- Vitamin D is the best Vitamin to prevent a stroke - meta-analysis Jan 2024
- Recurrent Stroke 5X more-likely if very low vitamin D - meta-analysis Feb 2023
- Ignoring dose size etc, meta-analysis concludes that Vitamin D does not help (stroke risk in this case) – Aug 2022
- Stroke 22 percent more likely if low Vitamin D – meta-analysis July 2021
- Stroke risks increased if low Vitamin D: Death 3.6 X, recurrence 5.5 X – Meta-analysis Nov 2019
- Ischemic Stroke risk reduced by 2.5 if have good level of vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2018
- Vitamin D associated with 50 percent less ischemic stroke – meta-analysis Aug 2012
- Cerebrovascular disease 40 percent less likely if high level of vitamin D – meta-analysis Sept 2012
- 50 percent fewer strokes with vitamin D, even though ignored dose size – meta-analysis March 2012
23+ VitaminDWiki Stroke pages have ISCHEMIC OR ISCHAEMIC in the title
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