The American College of Cardiology Scientific sessions held in Chicago presented Vitamin D and bioavailable vitamin D levels create a lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, heart failure or cardiovascular death. In fact a vitamin D deficiency can quadruple the chances of a cardiovascular event.
Hypertension is listed as a cardiovascular sign of being deficient. Vitamin D acts to increase the intestinal absorption for the right mineralization of bones. It also acts as a steroid hormone by binding to the vitamin D receptor in cells all over the body including cardiomyocytes, vascular smooth muscle and endothelium.
Vitamin D can be produced by the skin as Vitamin D3 by exposure to sunlight-ultaviolet-B UVB. After it enters the body, it circulates and binds to vitamin D-binding protein and is converted to its major form 25-hydroxyvitamin D by the liver.
The National Health and Nutritional Examination Surveys conducted in the USA found a deficiency found more people to have a higher incidence of angina, myocardial infarction and heart failure.
Vitamin D as a Factor in improving insulin sensitivity. The higher the levels of Vitamin D the less chances of diabetes 1. In parts of the countries where there is more winter the vitamin D levels are lower compared to sunshine states. The problem in sunshine states is people wearing sunblock when they go outside which prevents the sunlight and the right uv rays from being converted to vitamin D. In sufficient vitamin D blood levels was found in Diabetes 1, rickets, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Post-menopausal women who took 1,100 IU of vitamin D daily had 80% fewer cancers
