{"id":5583,"date":"2022-09-13T10:57:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-d-administration-improves-cardiovascular-health-in-obese-children\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:47","slug":"vitamin-d-administration-improves-cardiovascular-health-in-obese-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-d-administration-improves-cardiovascular-health-in-obese-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D administration improves cardiovascular health in obese children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) studied the effect of vitamin D supplementation in 225 obese children with vitamin D deficiency. The study participants received either 600 IU or 1000 IU or 2000 IU of vitamin D3 daily for 6 months. An improvement in blood pressure, fasting glucose concentration and insulin sensitivity was found. The researchers concluded that improved vitamin D blood levels may improve cardiovascular health in overweight children. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Rajakumar et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7138671\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) studied the effect of vitamin D supplementation in 225 obese children with vitamin D deficiency. The study participants received either 600 IU or 1000 IU or 2000 IU of vitamin D3 daily for 6 months. An improvement in blood pressure, fasting glucose concentration and insulin sensitivity was&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\/5583"}],"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=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}