Vitamin D Levels Predict All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Subjects With the Metabolic Syndrome: The Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) study

OBJECTIVE: Optimal vitamin D levels are associated with reduced cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. We investigated whether optimal 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) is protective in individuals with the metabolic syndrome. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: The Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health...

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Published in:	Diabetes care Vol. 35; no. 5; pp. 1158 - 1164
Main Authors:	Thomas, G. Neil, ó Hartaigh, Bríain, Bosch, Jos A, Pilz, Stefan, Loerbroks, Adrian, Kleber, Marcus E, Fischer, Joachim E, Grammer, Tanja B, Böhm, Bernhard O, März, Winfried
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Alexandria, VA American Diabetes Association 01.05.2012
Subjects:	Aged Alfacalcidol analogs & derivatives Biological and medical sciences blood Calcifediol Cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases - blood Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality cohort studies complications death Diabetes mellitus Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases) Endocrinopathies Female Health aspects heart failure Humans Male Medical research Medical sciences Medicine, Experimental Metabolic diseases Metabolic disorders Metabolic syndrome Metabolic Syndrome - blood Metabolic Syndrome - complications Middle Aged Miscellaneous Mortality Myocardial infarction Original Research Other metabolic disorders Prognosis Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Research design risk Risk factors Studies Survival Vitamin D Vitamin D - analogs & derivatives Vitamin D - blood vitamin D deficiency Vitamins Endocrinopathy Human Nutrition Prediction Metabolic diseases Cardiovascular disease Risk Metabolic syndrome Vitamin D Cause Risk factor Circulatory system Endocrinology Public health
ISSN:	0149-5992, 1935-5548, 1935-5548
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