ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2019
Association between vitamin D and hypertension in people coming for health check up to a tertiary care centre in South India.
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- Vitamin D status and cardiometabolic risk factors among hypertensive and normotensive adults: a hospital-based cross-sectional study in Nepal.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Determining correlation between changes in blood pressure and vitamin D levels: Analyzing influencing factors in hypertensive adults at Family Medicine Clinics.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and its association with cardiometabolic risk factors among healthcare workers in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa; cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Recent Advances in Association Between Vitamin D Levels and Cardiovascular Disorders.Current hypertension reports · 2023Review
- Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study.Cureus · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionVitamin D has many effects apart from its role in calcium metabolism and bone health. Vitamin D is derived from endogenous ultraviolet-B induced vitamin D synthesis in the skin, and the current high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in India, can be attributed to lifestyle related low sunlight exposure. Identification of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) in almost all human cells, suggests a role in extra skeletal diseases. Studies have shown that vitamin D deficiency is an independent risk factor for hypertension.
aimTo evaluate the association between vitamin D and hypertension in people coming for health check up to a tertiary care center in South India. MATERIALS AND
methodsStudy was carried out as a cross sectional study in a tertiary care hospital in South India. Participants (520) were both males and females (337 males and 183 females), between the age group of 20-60 years attending the comprehensive health check up clinic of our hospital. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Statistical analysis was done using IBM SPSS statistics 20.0.
resultsSevere vitamin D deficiency was highly prevalent in people with hypertension than in people without hypertension (
conclusionSince India is a tropical country, till recently it was believed that vitamin D deficiency and its ill effects are uncommon. But it was found that, vitamin D deficiency was highly prevalent in people with hypertension in South India, emphasizing the need of early vitamin D supplementation. Therefore, to reduce cardiovascular morbidity, early identification of vitamin D deficiency and appropriate vitamin D supplementation may be of primary importance in population, especially like ours, having high prevalence.
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