Open AccessStudy of vitamin D status in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy at a teaching hospital in North India
Author(s) -
S Priya,
Zeba Siddiqi,
Ritu Karoli,
Jalees Fatima,
Saumya Gupta,
Ritu Mishra
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of cardiovascular echography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.255
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2347-193X
pISSN - 2211-4122
DOI - 10.4103/2211-4122.187959
Subject(s) - medicine , dilated cardiomyopathy , teaching hospital , cardiology , cardiomyopathy , heart failure , general surgery
Recent studies have indicated a much broader role to Vitamin D than simply the regulation of calcium metabolism alone. Vitamin D likely confers physiologically relevant pleiotropic functions that include cardioprotective and immunomodulatory effect, and its deficiency could lead to increased risk of cardiovascular disease and heart failure.