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Dietary micronutrient intake and cardiovascular risk factors in a population at risk of heart failure

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule (sVCAM) amongst others.Eighty three participants (48 women, 35 men) aged (mean ± SD) 65 ± 7.7 years, BMI 28 ± 4.5 kg/m 2 with complete data entered the analysis.A general linear model multivariate analysis with a backward elimination stepwise procedure was performed (SPSS version 22).Results: The final model built based on a parsimonious model, which included age, gender, BMI, McAuley's index as confounders but excluded season, medications and PTH, indicated that there were significant differences across vitamin D tertiles in TC (T1 > T3, p ¼ 0.003), LDL-cholesterol (T1 > T3, p ¼ 0.005), HGF (T1 < T3, p ¼ 0.009; T2 < T3, p ¼ 0.047) and sVCAM (T1 < T3, p ¼ 0.04).Conclusions: Lower vitamin D status was associated with higher total and LDL-cholesterol, and lower HGF and sVCAM.Overall the data are suggestive of a role for the vitamin in CVD.

Source: Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism

DOI: 10.1016/j.jnim.2014.10.178