{"id":47520,"date":"2015-03-17T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47520"},"modified":"2015-05-15T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T22:33:18","slug":"vitamin-d-supplements-do-not-appear-to-lower-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2015\/03\/17\/vitamin-d-supplements-do-not-appear-to-lower-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D Supplements Do Not Appear to Lower Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><em>By Jenni Whalen<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"p-3\">Vitamin D supplements do not effectively lower blood pressure, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=2195120\">a systematic review and meta-analysis in<\/a> <em>JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em>. Low serum vitamin D levels have previously been associated with elevated blood pressure and cardiovascular events.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-4\">Researchers examined findings from 46 randomized, placebo-controlled trials that involved at least 4 weeks&#8217; use of vitamin D supplementation (for any indication) and reported both baseline and follow-up data on blood pressure. Individual patient data were also acquired from 27 of those trials (3000 patients).<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-5\">Within both data sets (trial level and individual patient level), vitamin D supplementation did not significantly affect systolic or diastolic blood pressure. Findings were similar in subgroup analyses limited to patients with elevated baseline blood pressure or diabetes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-6\">&#8220;The lack of effect argues against a role for vitamin D supplementation as a means of BP control in individual patients or as a population-based intervention,&#8221; the authors conclude.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin D supplements do not effectively lower blood pressure, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine. Low serum vitamin D levels have previously been associated with elevated blood pressure and cardiovascular events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertension-3","category-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}