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74+ VitaminDWiki pages with ARTERIES OR ATHEROSCLEROSIS OR CALCIFICATION in title

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Less Calcification if less Calcium or more Vitamin K, Magnesium, etc. - many studies 26 May, 2024
Gynecological cancers and atherosclerosis (perhaps a Vitamin D association) - Dec 2023 29 Jan, 2024
Coronary Artery Disease and Vitamin D - many studies 20 Sep, 2023
Vitamin K2-7 decreases arterial stiffness (cleans arteries) – RCT Feb 2015 20 Jul, 2023
Arteries and Atherosclerosis and Vitamin D - many studies 03 Jul, 2023
Childhood Cancer Survivors have worse arteries due to anticancer therapy – May 2023 30 May, 2023
Vascular calcification greatly reduced by 3 per week 1000 ug of Vitamin K2 MK-7 – Dec 2013 14 Apr, 2023
Coronary Artery Disease Chest Pain, Anxiety, and Fatigue associated with low vitamin D – Oct 2022 07 Oct, 2022
Vitamin D fights Coronary Artery Disease in many ways – when will it be used in therapy – May 2022 13 May, 2022
Arterial Stiffness and Vitamins – only Vitamin D was found to help – meta-analysis Feb 2022 27 Feb, 2022
Low Vitamin D and Vitamin K: brittle bones and hardened arteries – LEF Sept 2010 14 Oct, 2021
Coronary Artery Disease 2.9 X more likely in postmenopausal women if Vitamin D deficient – March 2020 19 Mar, 2020
Arterial stiffness reduced if use at least 2,000 IU of Vitamin D for 4 months – meta-analysis Dec 2019 06 Dec, 2019
Peripheral Arterial Disease 3.7 X more likely in diabetics with low vitamin D – June 2019 02 Jul, 2019
Hard bones, soft arteries, rather than vice versa (Vitamin D and Vitamin K) – March 2016 26 Apr, 2019
Vitamin K reduces calcification (reported yet again) – Feb 2019 01 Feb, 2019
Innocent Dietary Imbalance Hardens and Narrows Your Arteries (Omega-3 index) – Dec 2018 10 Dec, 2018
Hypothesis – Vascular calcification is associated with both too much and too little vitamin D - May 2018 15 Jul, 2018
Stroke is strongly associated with Calcification of cerebral arteries (perhaps low Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Mg…) – March 2018 21 Apr, 2018
Arterial stiffness reduced by vitamin D 04 Apr, 2018
Peripheral arterial disease risk is 1.5X higher if low vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2018 29 Mar, 2018
Hypothesis – Use of anticoagulants with COPD lowers Vitamin K, which increases calcification – Nov 2017 25 Jan, 2018
Arterial stiffness reduced by Omega-3, Vitamin D, Vitamin K2, Magnesium, etc. 06 Jan, 2018
Arterial stiffness reduced by Omega-3, Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Potassium, etc. 05 Jan, 2018
Coronary Artery Disease risk both increased and decreased by 30 percent with mutations in Vitamin D Binding – April 2016 09 Nov, 2017
Intracranial arterial calcification in 85 percent of ischemic strokes (Vitamin K and Vitamin D should help) – Oct 2017 27 Oct, 2017
Vitamin D Binding Protein and Coronary artery disease – Oct 2017 26 Oct, 2017
Obstructive coronary artery disease 2.9 X more likely if chest pain and low vitamin D – Aug 2016 09 Aug, 2017
Cardiovascular calcification prevented by Omega-3, Magnesium, Vitamin K, and Vitamin D – April 2015 09 Aug, 2017
Stiff arteries 6.8 X more likely if low vitamin D AND low vitamin K – April 2017 10 May, 2017
7X increased chance of death if coronary artery disease and low vitamin D – Oct 2013 20 Mar, 2017
Coronary Artery Disease without diabetes 5 times more likely if VDR gene problems – meta-analysis May 2016 10 Dec, 2016
Atherosclerosis prevented by Ultraviolet light (UVB in mice) – Oct 2016 25 Nov, 2016
Hypothesis: Atherosclerosis in Ancient and Modern Humans due to low vitamin D (behind paywall) - May 2015 25 Nov, 2016
Atherosclerosis – higher risk due to low vitamin D than HDL – Feb 2015 25 Nov, 2016
Peripheral Arterial Disease 2 percent more likely for every 1 nanogram less Vitamin D – Sept 2016 01 Oct, 2016
Peripheral Arterial Disease patients have low vitamin D levels – meta-analysis Oct 2015 01 Oct, 2016
Coronary artery calcification associated with low vitamin D 18 Jun, 2016
Vitamin D deficiency was the highest risk factor for coronary artery calcification with HIV -Aug 2013 18 Jun, 2016
Magnesium reduced calcitriol (active vitamin D) artery calcification in CKD by 50 percent – Oct 2015 22 Oct, 2015
Peripheral Arterial Disease 3X less prevalent at 40 ng of vitamin D – 2008 15 Oct, 2015
Vitamin D and peripheral arterial disease – Nov 2011 15 Oct, 2015
Reverse Hardening of the Arteries with vitamin K2 -2015 29 Sep, 2015
Vitamin D video: calcification, narrow-band UV, 4,000 IU, 50 ng – Dr. DeLuca May 2015 04 Jun, 2015
If you must take statins and want to avoid hardening of arteries, take vitamin K2 – RCT May 2015 22 May, 2015
7100 IU vitamin D2 for 3 months did not treat Coronary Artery Disease – Nov 2012 16 Mar, 2015
Children with low vitamin D were 1.8 X more likely to have poor arteries 27 years later – Feb 2015 11 Feb, 2015
Vitamin D Deficiency may be an Independent Risk Factor for Arterial Disease – July 2012 03 Feb, 2015
Arterial stiffness reduced by a single dose of 100,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Dec 2014 06 Jan, 2015
Vitamin D is good, but must balance Vitamins A and K2 to prevent Calcification – Masterjohn Aug 2014 31 Dec, 2014
Coronary Artery Enlargement associated with low levels of vitamin D – Nov 2014 10 Dec, 2014
Interactions of Vitamins D, A, and K, should measure calcitriol, calcification – Masterjohn Aug 2013 28 Nov, 2014
Arterial stiffness reduced with vitamin D intervention – June 2011 21 Sep, 2014
Stiff arteries in seniors associated with low vitamin D levels – July 2012 21 Sep, 2014
Soft Bones, Hard Arteries, Vitamin D, Vitamin K2 and antibiotics – Sept 2012 20 Jul, 2014
Magnesium Suppresses Formation of Clogged Arteries - May 2014 08 May, 2014
Coronary artery disease extent is associated with extent of vitamin D deficiency – April 2014 04 Apr, 2014
Atherogenesis, atherosclerosis and vitamin D – review Dec 2013 21 Feb, 2014
Vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease April 2010 21 Dec, 2013
24X less Calcification of Aorta for PAD with modest level of vitamin D – Aug 2011 21 Dec, 2013
Aortic Calcification 85 percent more likely if vitamin D level lower than 29 ng – June 2012 21 Dec, 2013
Vitamin D significantly lowers macrophage adhesion to prevent arterial clots (in diabetics)– Nov 2012 07 Oct, 2013
Coronary artery disease 5.8X more likely if vitamin D level is less than 30 ng – Nov 2012 24 Sep, 2013
Excess vitamin A caused calcification of heart valves in mice – Dec 2012 17 Jul, 2013
Vitamin D and Arterial Hypertension: Treat the Deficiency - Feb 2013 06 Feb, 2013
Vertebral fracture 3X more likely with aortic calcification – Vitamins D3 and K2 Sept 2012 17 Oct, 2012
Coronary Artery Disease predicted by low levels of vitamin D – April 2012 16 Oct, 2012
Petrie dish experiment confirms that active vitamin D reduces arterial inflammation – Aug 2012 23 Aug, 2012
Old concern about high vitamin D and atherosclerosis – 2003 08 Apr, 2012
Vitamin D deficient Type 1 diabetics 3X more likely to have calcification problems – Feb 2011 28 Oct, 2011
Low vitamin D may contribute to Peripheral Arterial Disease – June 2010 30 Aug, 2011
Vitamin D is a promising way to deal with atherosclerosis – Aug 2010 03 Jul, 2011
Atherosclerosis associated with low vitamin D – June 2011 03 Jul, 2011
Vitamin D might deal with atherosclerosis – Jan 2011 03 Jul, 2011

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165 items in the category HYPERTENSION

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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


VitaminDWiki – Metabolic Syndrome contains

105 items

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344+ VitaminDWiki Cardiovascular pages with VITAMIN D in the title

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Problems following surgery if low Vitamin D (Cardiac in this case) – Oct 2024 26 Oct, 2024
Vitamin D improves Cardiovascular Health in 8 ways – Sept 2024 18 Sep, 2024
T2 Diabetes and associated CVD problems fought by Vitamin D (weekly 50,000 IU) – Sept 2024 18 Sep, 2024
Five indicators of poor heart health are 3X more likely if low vitamin D – Aug 2024 29 Aug, 2024
Afib implants (cardiac resynchronization therapy) are 3X less likely to help if low vitamin D – July 2024 15 Aug, 2024
Heart Failure and Vitamin D - many studies 10 Aug, 2024
Heart Failure and Vitamin D meta-analyses - many studies 10 Aug, 2024
Chronic Heart Failure helped by Vitamin D – meta-analysis Aug 2024 10 Aug, 2024
Vitamin D reduces many Cardiovascular risk factors (provided doses are personalized) – meta-analysis July 2024 29 Jul, 2024
Cardiac resynchronization therapy is 3.3 X less likely to help if low Vitamin D – July 2024 19 Jul, 2024
DNA analysis of genes (Polygenic risk) shows increased risk of 9 health problems (all 9 fought by Vitamin D) – Feb 2024 07 Jul, 2024
Sudden Cardiac Arrest 10.8 X more likely if severe vitamin D deficiency – May 2024 13 Jun, 2024
Cardiovascular Disease plus Stroke will cost the US a Trillon dollars annually by 2032 (Vitamin D not mentioned) – AHA June 2024 11 Jun, 2024
How Vitamin D might reduce cardiovascular diseases – April 2024 10 Jun, 2024
Should not add rock Calcium to Vitamin D (after 20 year followup: 6% increase in heart problems – no surprise) – RCT May 2024 23 May, 2024
Fewer deaths (All-cause, Cardiovascular, Cancer) when Vitamin D levels are above 36 ng – April 2024 01 May, 2024
Kawasaki Disease and Vitamin D - several studies 01 May, 2024
Vitamin D reduces CVD by reducing Manganese and Cadmium in blood – Feb 2024 22 Feb, 2024
Risk of Cardiovascular death decreased 5X (lowest to highest Vitamin D level)- Feb 2024 19 Feb, 2024
Little Vitamin D does not reduce risk of CVD – RCT meta-analysis Dec 2023 08 Feb, 2024
Risk of Cardiovascular disease: Low Vitamin D, low HSPCs and high hsCRP - Jan 2024 02 Feb, 2024
Low Vitamin D associated with CHD, stroke, death, etc, (Mendelian analhysis) - Dec 2021 07 Jan, 2024
Male preemies had poor heart rate regulation as adults (preemies have low vitamin D) – Dec 2023 25 Dec, 2023
Vitamin D Mistake to Avoid (Heart: Govt say 600 IU, research says 5,000 IU) - Dec 2023 03 Dec, 2023
Vitamin D helps organ transplant - many studies 30 Nov, 2023
Metabolic Syndromes fought by Vitamin D in 6 ways – Oct 2023 18 Oct, 2023
Endothelium (lining of blood vessels, heart) and Vitamin D - several studies 04 Oct, 2023
UV reduces cardiovascular and metabolic problems– Vitamin D plus Nitric oxide – Sept 2023 21 Sep, 2023
Coronary Artery Disease and Vitamin D - many studies 20 Sep, 2023
Low heart rate variability (bad) is associated with low Vitamin D and COVID – many studies 22 Aug, 2023
Statins and Vitamin D - many studies 15 Jul, 2023
Cardiovascular events – need more than monthly 60,000 IU vitamin D to prevent other than infarction – June 2023 13 Jul, 2023
Atrial Fibrillation decreased by Vitamin D or Magnesium - many studies 11 Jul, 2023
Afib in Finland reduced 30% by Vitamin D (3200 IU) – RCT June 2023 09 Jul, 2023
3X less risk of Atherosclerotic Disease if good level of Vitamin D (Japan) – June 2023 03 Jul, 2023
Arteries and Atherosclerosis and Vitamin D - many studies 03 Jul, 2023
4 Cardiovascular diseases are associated with little vitamin D getting to cells – May 2023 07 Jun, 2023
Poor oral health increases CVD risk if low Vitamin D – June 2023 05 Jun, 2023
Afib 40% less likely after heart by-pass if have enough Vitamin D – meta-analysis May 2023 27 May, 2023
Vitamin D both reduces CVD directly and reduces metabolic problems that cause CVD – May 2023 26 May, 2023
Sudden drop of heart rate (vasovagal syncope) is associated with lower vitamin D - several studies 25 May, 2023
Death rates of Cardiovascular patients keep decreasing until 90 nmol of Vitamin D - May 2023 08 May, 2023
Vitamin D not improve health if any of 7 errors are made by trials – April 2023 13 Apr, 2023
Cardiovascular problems are prevented by Vitamin D plus Omega-3 – Feb 2023 17 Feb, 2023
Risk of heart failure increased 1.4X if low vitamin D – meta-analysis Dec 2022 28 Dec, 2022
Poor heart rate variability for a year after Bariatric surgery if low vitamin D – Nov 2022 08 Nov, 2022
Cardiovascular Disease is treated by Vitamin D - many studies 26 Oct, 2022
Less likely to die of various causes if higher Vitamin D (data from 300,000 people) – Oct 2022 25 Oct, 2022
Vitamin D and neurocognitive function – Holick April 2014 21 Oct, 2022
Surgeries to re-establish blood in brain, heart, etc. are far more successful with high Vitamin D levels – March 2022 08 Oct, 2022
Coronary Artery Disease Chest Pain, Anxiety, and Fatigue associated with low vitamin D – Oct 2022 07 Oct, 2022
High dose vitamin D fights Folate gene changes by COVID, autoimmune, CVD, ALZ – Oct 2022 06 Oct, 2022
Metabolic Syndrome with low vitamin D increases CVD mortality by 1.7 X – July 2022 27 Sep, 2022
3,200 IU of daily not help much in population already having 30 ng of Vitamin D – RCT Jan 2022 27 Sep, 2022
CAD patients with low vitamin D were 1.6 X more likely to die – 27th meta-analysis Aug 2022 29 Aug, 2022
Cardiovascular death 1.5X more likely if less than 20 ng of Vitamin D – 22nd meta-analysis Nov 2019 29 Aug, 2022
Cardiovascular disease 2.3 X more-likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – Aug 2022 04 Aug, 2022
50,000 IU of Vitamin D weekly for 6 months after cardiac failure helps – RCT May 2022 11 Jun, 2022
Vitamin D fights Coronary Artery Disease in many ways – when will it be used in therapy – May 2022 13 May, 2022
Nitric oxide (from Sun, UVA, Vitamin D) reduces cardiovascular problems 30 Apr, 2022
Nitric oxide increased by UVA, Vitamin D, Magnesium, etc, 29 Apr, 2022
COVID and CVD deadly pandemics share a risk factor: low vitamin D - April 2022 17 Apr, 2022
1.7 X less risk of Heart Failure death if previously had taken any amount of vitamin D - Jan 2022 14 Apr, 2022
Atrial Fibrillation risk reduced by 0.84 in those raising Vitamin D levels above 30 ng – RCT April 2022 04 Apr, 2022
Inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis): low Vitamin D and 22 X more likely to have kidney problems – March 2022 13 Mar, 2022
Monthly vitamin D helped hearts with low vitamin D a bit (need it more frequently) – RCT March 2022 11 Mar, 2022
Arterial Stiffness and Vitamins – only Vitamin D was found to help – meta-analysis Feb 2022 27 Feb, 2022
CPR with low vitamin D – 10X more likely to have poor outcome within 3 months – Jan 2022 27 Jan, 2022
Vitamin D probably has a Role in Cancer, CVD, and COVID - video and transcript Dec 1, 2021 02 Dec, 2021
26 health factors increase the risk of COVID-19 – all are proxies for low vitamin D 03 Nov, 2021
Those raising Vitamin D above 30 ng were 1.4 X less likely to die of Heart Attack (VA 19 years) – Oct 2021 28 Oct, 2021
Recurrrent Cardiovascular deaths cut in half if 10 ng more Vitamin D – meta-analysis Sept 2021 18 Oct, 2021
Overview Cardiovascular and vitamin D 18 Oct, 2021
Low Vitamin D and Vitamin K: brittle bones and hardened arteries – LEF Sept 2010 14 Oct, 2021
Giving free vitamin D to every Iranian would pay for itself by just reducing CVD – Oct 2021 07 Oct, 2021
Overview Metabolic Syndrome and vitamin D 25 Aug, 2021
Statin pain reduces Vitamin D levels by 4 ng ( 9 studies) - Meta-analysis July 2021 23 Jul, 2021
Thalassemia (low hemogloben problem) and Vitamin D 25 Jun, 2021
Cardiovascular disease and vitamin D (some strange claims) – May 2021 30 May, 2021
1.3X higher risk of severe Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular problems if low Vitamin D (50 million people) – Dec 2020 04 Dec, 2020
Vitamin D deficiency associated with increased risk of many health problems in 58,000,000 Americans - Nov 2020 24 Nov, 2020
UVB phototherapy (which increases Vitamin D and VDR) decreased risk of many heart and stroke problems – July 2020 29 Jul, 2020
Coronary Artery Disease 2.9 X more likely in postmenopausal women if Vitamin D deficient – March 2020 19 Mar, 2020
Senior veterans with Heart Failure were 1.8X more likely to be hospitalized if low vitamin D – Feb 2020 31 Dec, 2019
Sudden Cardiac Arrest – 2.8 X higher risk if low vitamin D – 2019 26 Dec, 2019
Vitamin D levels dropped 42 percent immediately after pediatric cardiac surgery – Dec 2019 25 Dec, 2019
Arterial stiffness reduced if use at least 2,000 IU of Vitamin D for 4 months – meta-analysis Dec 2019 06 Dec, 2019
Blood vessels not helped by small vitamin D doses – meta-analysis Dec 2019 28 Nov, 2019
Acute Coronary Syndrome is associated with poor Vitamin D genes (CYP27B1, CYP24A1) – Nov 2019 15 Nov, 2019
Statin side-effects are reduced by Vitamin D – US patent Application – April 2019 14 Nov, 2019
Statin pain eliminated by 7100 IU vitamin D (50000 IU weekly) – July 2011 21 Jul, 2019
Peripheral Arterial Disease 3.7 X more likely in diabetics with low vitamin D – June 2019 02 Jul, 2019
Low-dose vitamin D does not help cardiovascular (many were 100-1,000 IU) – meta-analysis June 2019 24 Jun, 2019
Vitamin D supplementation reduces many Cardiovascular Disease markers– meta-analysis July 2018 20 Jun, 2019
Risk of Cardiovascular disease increased 2X if both low vitamin D and high C-reactive protein – April 2019 04 Jun, 2019
C-reactive protein (heart disease marker) reduced by vitamin D – meta-analysis 2014, 2019 21 May, 2019
Bone marrow failure (MDS) is associated with half as much Vitamin D – April 2019 10 Apr, 2019
Heart Failure 15X more likely if poor VDR, even if good level of vitamin D (China) – March 2019 23 Mar, 2019
Daily aspirin reduced chance of heart problems by 0.4 percent (but 50X more reduction if Vitamin D) – Meta-analysis Jan 2019 19 Mar, 2019
Extreme Heat Events increase congenital heart defects (perhaps low vitamin D) - Jan 2019 01 Feb, 2019

108,000 medical papers on Atherosclerosis and "Vitamin D"

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  • Vitamin D and Cardiovascular Disease, with Emphasis on Hypertension, Atherosclerosis, and Heart Failure - Sept 2020 - DOI: 10.3390/ijms21186483 FREE PDF
  • Vitamin D and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease - April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2019-00194 FREE PDF
  • Clinical and biomarker modifiers of vitamin D treatment response: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis - March 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqab390 FREE PDF
  • Serum Level of Vitamin D Is Associated with Severity of Coronary Atherosclerosis in Postmenopausal Women - Sept 2021 https://doi.org/10.3390/biology10111139 FREE PDF
  • The Effect of Vitamin D on Coronary Atherosclerosis: A Propensity Score Matched Case–Control Coronary CTA Study - July 2021 https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8080085    PDF
    • "Patients with serum vitamin D (OH) levels >60 ng/mL had higher plaque density (p = 0.04), indicating more calc ified and less vulnerable plaque. Conclusions: In this retrospective case–control cohort study, vitamin D supplementation was associated with less high-risk plaque, less non-calcified plaque burden, and a higher calcified plaque independent of CV risk factors."
  • Assessment of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Vitamin D Deficiency - June 2019. | DOI: 10.1097/RUQ.0000000000000386 PDF is behind paywall
  • Vitamin D level is associated with severity of coronary artery atherosclerosis and incidence of acute coronary syndromes in non-diabetic cardiac patients - March 2017 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2019.83291  PDF

37,600 medical papers on Atherosclerosis and "Vitamin K"

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  • Quantifying dietary vitamin K and its link to cardiovascular health: a narrative review - March 2020    PDF
  • Vitamin K Supplementation for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Where Is the Evidence? A Systematic Review of Controlled Trials - Sept 2020 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12102909    PDF
    • "While vitamin K supplementation clearly improves the carboxylation of dephosphoylated MGP, its role in mitigating vascular calcification is uncertain, based on current evidence."
  • Extent of arterial calcification by conventional vitamin K antagonist treatment - Oct, 2020    PDF
  • Vitamin K supplementation and vascular calcification: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials- May 2023    PDF

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