Dietary vitamin D intake, cardiovascular disease and cardiometabolic risk factors: a sex-based analysis from the ATTICA cohort study.

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc, published as an observational study.

The present study aimed to evaluate the association between dietary vitamin D intake and 10-year first fatal/nonfatal cardiovascular disease (CVD), conventional CVD risk factors and surrogate markers related to inflammation, coagulation, insulin resistance, liver and renal function.

Who Took Part

According to the abstract, 2012 men were involved.

The age groups tagged for this paper are adults, middle-aged adults and older adults, both men and women.

The ATTICA study was conducted during 2001-2012 including 1514 men and 1528 women (aged >18 years) from the greater Athens area, Greece.

Dietary assessment was based on a validated semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire.

How the Study Was Run

Follow-up (2011-2012) was achieved in 2020 participants (n = 317 cases).

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Biomarkers, Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diet, Diet Surveys, Dietary Supplements and Greece.

The authors tagged it with the keywords calcitriol, gender, nutrition and vitamin D.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is an observational study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 2012 men.

With several hundred people or more, it is a fairly large study for this kind of research.

Its findings take up roughly 5 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2020 (Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association), a journal based in England.

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