Vitamin D supplementation reduces some AT1-AA-induced downstream targets implicated in preeclampsia including hypertension

In this study, we demonstrate that vitamin D improved many factors associated with PE and reduced blood pressure in a hypertensive model without PE features, indicating that vitamin D could be beneficial for various hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

Source: AJP: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology - January 11, 2017 Category: Physiology Authors: Faulkner, J. L., Amaral, L. M., Cornelius, D. C., Cunningham, M. W., Ibrahim, T., Heep, A., Campbell, N., Usry, N., Wallace, K., Herse, F., Dechend, R., LaMarca, B. Tags: Research Article Source Type: research