HealthDay (8/13, Preidt, 2K) reports that research published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that vitamin D supplementation may not reduce blood pressure in older individuals with hypertension.
MedPage Today (8/13,
Neale, 185K) reports that “at both 3 months and 1 year, there were no
differences in office blood pressure between the supplementation and placebo
groups.” Investigators also found that “there were no effects seen on nearly
all of the secondary outcomes, with the exception of parathyroid hormone
levels, which dropped by 3.8 ng/mL with supplementation relative to placebo.”
MedPage Today points out that “isolated systolic hypertension...occurs in about
65% of hypertensive patients over 60 and 90% over 70, according to an expert
consensus document from the American Heart Association/American College of
Cardiology.”
POSTED BY: Steven
Almany M.D.
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