(Don Rauf/ Everyday Health) — High-dose vitamin D supplements taken once a month may lower the likelihood of heart attack or other major cardiac events in people ages 60 and up, according to a large new study published this week in The BMJ.
Although the level of risk reduction was small, researchers discovered that vitamin D supplementation may cut the incidence of heart attack and the need for coronary revascularization (procedures which restore blood flow to areas of your heart that aren’t getting enough blood).
So far, research on the heart benefits of vitamin D have been mixed. Study authors mentioned that some previous trials have indicated that supplementation does not prevent heart trouble.
A analysis published in 2019 in JAMA Cardiology, which included 21 clinical trials and more than 83,000 participants, concluded that vitamin D supplements do not reduce the risk of having or dying from a heart attack or stroke. (…)