Deans' stroke musings: Vit D Blog: Extremes Tied to Greater Cardiovascular Death Risk

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Vit D Blog: Extremes Tied to Greater Cardiovascular Death Risk

More controversy on vitamin D levels. Ask your doctor.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Endocrinology/GeneralEndocrinology/50467?
Researchers found a reverse J-shaped association between vitamin D and cardiovascular-related mortality -- with a stronger association for those with low levels of the hormone.
In a modeling study based on an observational cohort study of nearly 250,000 people, those with low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels -- on the order of 12.5 nmol/L -- had a hazard ratio for cardiovascular disease mortality of 2.0 (95% CI 1.8-2.1) compared with members who had levels of 70 nmol/L (those with the lowest mortality risk).
Men with low 25-OH-D levels were at greater risk (HR 2.5, 95% CI 2.2-2..9) than were women with low levels (HR 1.7, 95% CI 1.5-1.9), according to the study, published online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
More surprising, perhaps, was that those at very high levels -- about 125 nmol/L -- also faced increased cardiovascular mortality risk, with a hazard ratio of 1.3 (95% CI 1.2-1.4) relative to the 70-nmol/L group, said Darshana Durup, PhD, at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark, and colleagues.
But the researchers recognized that the study was limited. "Sufficient data are not available to draw firm conclusions on the relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin D and cardiovascular disease mortality at the extremes, especially at the higher extremes," they wrote.

Read the rest at the link and don't do anything based on this without talking to your doctor.