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Trial reportAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology2020

Four weeks of vitamin D supplementation improves nitric oxide-mediated microvascular function in college-aged African Americans.

S Tony Wolf, Nina G Jablonski, Sara B Ferguson, Lacy M Alexander, W Larry Kenney

Open access · greenAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Water intake mediates cross-sectional associations between urinary kidney injury biomarkers and race in emerging adults.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2026
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  3. Improved hemodynamic and cardiorespiratory instability with vitamin D supplementation in an obstructive sleep apnea rat models.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2026
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  7. Do not sleep on vitamin D: vitamin D is associated with sleep variability in apparently healthy adults.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2025
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  10. Interplay of race and neighborhood deprivation on resting and ambulatory blood pressure in young adults.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2024
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  18. Within-limb variation in skin pigmentation does not influence cutaneous vasodilation.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

S Tony WolfDepartment of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0002-6336-2143
Nina G JablonskiDepartment of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0001-7644-874X
Sara B FergusonDepartment of Dermatology, The Penn State Hershey Medical Group, State College, Pennsylvania.
Lacy M AlexanderDepartment of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
W Larry KenneyDepartment of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania State University · USPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · US

Funding

Age and Control of Human Skin FlowR01AG007004 · NIA · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK · PI KENNEY, W. LARRY · 1994 to 2013
$4.9M
Psychosocial Determinants and Biological Pathway to Healthy Aging (Pathways)T32AG049676 · NIA · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI LYNN M. MARTIRE · 2016 to 2026
$3.9M
Identification of Critical Thermal Environments for Aged AdultsR01AG067471 · NIA · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI KENNEY, W. LARRY · 2020 to 2024
$3.7M
HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) 5T32AG049676-03NIA NIH HHS R01 AG007004NIA NIH HHS R01 AG067471NIA NIH HHS T32 AG049676
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reduced nitric oxide (NO)-mediated cutaneous vasodilation, secondary to increased oxidative stress, presents in young African American (AA) compared with European American (EA) adults and may be modulated by vitamin D status. We assessed cutaneous microvascular function in 18 young, healthy (21 ± 2 yr; 9 men, 9 women) subjects before (pre, 8 AA, 10 EA) 4 wk of 2,000 IU/day oral vitamin D supplementation and in 13 subjects after (post, 7 AA, 6 EA) 4 wk of 2,000 IU/day oral vitamin D supplementation. Serum vitamin D concentrations [25(OH)D] were measured at each visit. Three intradermal microdialysis fibers placed in the ventral forearm were randomized for treatment with 10 μM Tempol, 100 μM apocynin, or lactated Ringer's solution (control). Local heating (39°C) induced cutaneous vasodilation; red cell flux was measured at each site (laser-Doppler flowmetry), and cutaneous vascular conductance (CVC = flux/MAP) was expressed as a percentage of maximum (28 mM sodium nitroprusside, +43°C) for each phase of local heating. After stable elevated blood flow was attained, 15 mM

Indexed as

Black or African AmericanDietary SupplementsAge FactorsFemaleHumansMaleMicrovesselsNitric OxideSkinTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeVasodilationVitamin DVitamin D DeficiencyYoung Adult25-hydroxyvitamin DNitric OxideVitamin Dmicrovascular functionnitric oxidevitamin D

Identifiers

PMID32857616
PMCPMC7654656
OpenAlexW3082643729

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