Vitamin D: New way to treat heart failure?

(University of Michigan Health System) Activated vitamin D protects the heart against avoid overwork and enlargement, two of the hallmarks of heart failure, a University of Michigan study in animals shows.

The results, the first to show vitamin D can prevent the damaging effects of heart failure, add heart health to the growing list of vitamin D's benefits.


 

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