Blood pressure decreases in overweight elderly individuals on Vitamin D

Abstract

The excellent manuscript by Rahme M et al., post hoc exploratory analyses of 221 ambulatory older overweight individuals supplemented with calcium and oral vitamin D3, shed light on an existing problem. I mean vitamin D is clearly associated with hypertension but it ssupplementation did not produce positive results. They do find it in older (≥65 years), overweight (body mass index [BMI] > 25), with a serum 25OHD between 10 and 30 ng/mL at screening, with a mean 25OHD level was 20.4 ng/mL.