2/3/2008
Vitamin D deficiency tied to higher blood pressure - NEW YORK (Reuters Health)
“The investigators found that white participants with sufficient vitamin D levels had a 20-percent lower rise in age-associated systolic blood pressure compared with those with insufficient vitamin D levels. This relationship was not statistically significant in blacks.”

2/2/2008
Higher vitamin D needed for diabetes benefits?
I found this article published over on nutraingredients.com. The question that arose for me when I read this study was how many of the women were vitamin D deficient throughout the duration of the study? I didn’t see anything about vitamin D baseline testing prior to the study. Maybe they did do baseline tests, but they didn’t mention it in what I read. The reason I ask this is that based on what we’ve seen at our clinic 400 IU’s of D wouldn’t seem like enough to take someone from deficiency into the normal range. Therefore, if someone was deficient for the entire study how would you know if D helped or not?