Study of Correlation of Serum Vitamin D Levels with Arterial Stiffness and Cardiovascular Morbidity in Elderly Individuals of Western Rajasthan.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this observational study publication.

Their aim was to study the correlation between serum vitamin D level, various measures of arterial stiffness and cardiovascular morbidity in elderly individuals.

Why It Was Studied

Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent condition in western countries as well as in India.

Who Took Part

According to the abstract, 100 individuals were involved.

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were middle-aged adults and older adults, both men and women.

The present study was conducted in collaboration with Department of Medicine, Department of Cardiology and Regional Geriatric Centre, NPHCE, MDM Hospital attached to Dr.

How the Study Was Run

Total 100 elderly individuals 60 yrs and above attending hospital for minor short illness, acute illness or for routine health checkup or with acute coronary events are included in the study.

Vitamin D level was assessed by chemiluminescent immunoassay.

Pulse Wave Velocity was determined by Periscope.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Coronary Artery Disease, Cross-Sectional Studies, India, Pulse Wave Analysis, Vascular Stiffness, Vitamin D and Vitamin D Deficiency.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is an observational study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 100 individuals.

Results are reported in around 7 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2018 (The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India), a journal based in India.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.