Low vitamin D at birth raises risk of higher blood pressure in kids

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Low vitamin D at birth raises risk of higher blood pressure in kids

Vitamin D deficiency from birth to early childhood was associated with an increased risk of elevated blood pressure in later childhood and adolescence, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension.

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Guoying Wang, Xin Liu, Tami R. Bartell, Colleen Pearson, Tina L. Cheng, Xiaobin Wang. Vitamin D Trajectories From Birth to Early Childhood and Elevated Systolic Blood Pressure During Childhood and Adolescence. Hypertension, 2019;

Links: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190701144254.htm

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