{"id":4376,"date":"2011-12-25T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2011-12-24T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T15:57:19","slug":"vitamin-d-supplements-treat-hypertension-prevent-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/12\/25\/vitamin-d-supplements-treat-hypertension-prevent-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D Supplements Treat Hypertension, Prevent Heart Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vitamin-D-hypertension-300x267.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"vitamin-D-hypertension\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vitamin-D-hypertension-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vitamin-D-hypertension.png 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Several studies from the last decade have linked low vitamin D levels with heightened risk of heart disease and hypertension. However, a new study from the University of Kansas is the first to find that treating low vitamin D with supplements reverses this risk. <\/p>\n<p>In this study of 10,000 vitamin D-deficient adults, the scientists found that supplementing with vitamin D &#8212; and getting blood vitamin D levels back to normal &#8212; swiftly improved a number of heart disease risk factors, including hypertension.  <\/p>\n<p>They also found that low blood vitamin D levels increased heart attack risk by nearly 40 percent. <\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s authors recommend taking 1,000 to 2,000 International Units (IU) of vitamin D per day.  <\/p>\n<p>More natural life-saving <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">hypertension treatments here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several studies from the last decade have linked low vitamin D levels with heightened risk of heart disease and hypertension. However, a new study from the University of Kansas is the first to find that treating low vitamin D with supplements reverses this risk. In this study of 10,000 vitamin D-deficient adults, the scientists found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}