{"id":139,"date":"2022-09-13T10:53:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/vitamin-d-benefits-arterial-health-in-diabetic-patients\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:53:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:53:57","slug":"vitamin-d-benefits-arterial-health-in-diabetic-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-d-benefits-arterial-health-in-diabetic-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D benefits arterial health in diabetic patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study was conducted to evaluate the benefit of high-dose vitamin D supplementation in diabetic patients with cardiovascular complications. 47 patients with type 2 diabetes were assigned into two groups: Group 1 received a vitamin D supplement at a dose of 1000 U (units) per day for 12 months. Group 2 received matching placebo capsules. At the end of the study, the so-called \u201ccentral aortic augmentation index\u201d, a measure of arterial stiffness, decreased significantly in patients who received vitamin D, but did not change in the placebo group. More details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Sameer Sharma,\u00a0Shrinivas K Kulkarni,\u00a0Kanwaljit Chopra<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17002671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study was conducted to evaluate the benefit of high-dose vitamin D supplementation in diabetic patients with cardiovascular complications. 47 patients with type 2 diabetes were assigned into two groups: Group 1 received a vitamin D supplement at a dose of 1000 U (units) per day for 12 months. Group 2 received matching placebo&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6625,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/6625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}