Does Vitamin D Deficiency Lead to Heart Failure?

This review article points out that the majority of patients with congestive heart failure have vitamin D insufficiency.

Vitamin D deficiency in these patients is presumably due in part to relatively low amounts of outdoor activity. Vitamin D deficiency may contribute to the pathogenesis of heart failure, or may exacerbate heart failure, by promoting the development of hypertension.

In recent years, evidence has accumulated that vitamin D deficiency is very common and may contribute to the development of muscle weakness and pain, some autoimmune diseases, osteoporosis, infections, and cancer.

View details of this vitamin D heart failure review article.

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