Vitamin D Deficiency and Heart Failure Risk: Not so Black and White?

JACC Heart Fail. 2015 May;3(5):357-359. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.02.005. Epub 2015 Apr 8.

Authors

Thomas J Wang¹, Quinn S Wells²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Vanderbilt Translational and Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Electronic address: thomas.j.wang@vanderbilt.edu.
² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Vanderbilt Translational and Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

PMID: 25863974
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.02.005

No abstract available

Keywords: genomics; heart failure; vitamin D; vitamin D deficiency.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Atherosclerosis / ethnology*
Female
Heart Failure / ethnology*
Humans
Male
Polymorphism, Genetic*
Racial Groups*
Risk Assessment / methods*
Vitamin D / analogs & derivatives*
Vitamin D-Binding Protein / genetics*

Substances

Vitamin D-Binding Protein
Vitamin D