Low Vitamin D Linked to Higher Risk of a Dangerous Belly Artery Bulge
Graded Moderate — retrospective matched cohort of over 930,000 adults followed up to ten years, though records data cannot rule out confounding and the absolute risk gap was small.
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This study suggests low vitamin D may be linked to aortic problems, not just bone health.
Adults over 50 with low vitamin D were 40% more likely to develop a bulge in the belly's main artery. Researchers compared records of about 466,000 deficient adults with an equal number of matched adults with normal levels, followed up to ten years. The condition is rare, so the actual gap was small: 0.66% versus 0.45%. The study cannot show that low vitamin D causes the problem, and no trial has tested whether fixing it helps.
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