Could decreased vitamin D levels be related with impaired cardiac autonomic functions in patients with chronic heart failure: an observational study.
CONCLUSION: Insufficiency of vitamin D may have deleterious effects on cardiac autonomic functions which were showed with heart rate turbulence and heart rate variability in patients with NIDCM. Vitamin D levels might be a predictor to determine the sudden cardiac death in patients with non-ischemic etiology.
PMID: 24901021 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Cetin M, Kozdağ G, Ural D, Kahraman G, Yılmaz I, Akay Y, Onuk R, Dursun N Tags: Anadolu Kardiyol Derg Source Type: research
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