ScienceDaily: Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation

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Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation

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Previous studies have shown a link between low vitamin D status and heart

disease. Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who

possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin D

activation are twice as likely as those without the variant to have congestive

heart failure.

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