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Association between vitamin D and cardioprotection in adult patients
Gabriel Cavalcante Ferraz1, Raul Ribeiro de Andrade1, Fernando Minervo Pimentel Reis2
1Acadêmico de Medicina do Centro Universitário CESMAC, Maceió, AL, Brasil.
Objective:
To conduct a review of articles which have evaluated the relationship between vitamin D and cardioprotection in adult.
Methods:
A literature search was performed in the Pubmed and Scielo databases. The results were extracted from primary and secondary sources and will be presented in the form of a bibliographic review.
Results:
Twenty-three articles were identified from the electronic search that reported on physiological mechanisms relating the vitamin D axis and the cardiovascular system through receptors. Of the ten studies that evaluated the therapeutic effect of vitamin D in cardiovascular diseases, none reported significant results.
Conclusion:
The articles assessed in this review did not demonstrate a cardioprotective effect of vitamin D, despite the epidemiological correlation of vitamin D deficiency with a higher prevalence of cardiovascular diseases.
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