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Karger Publishers, Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 1(60), p. 69-77, 2012

DOI: 10.1159/000336173

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Vitamin D in Relation to Myocardial Structure and Function after Eight Years of Follow-Up: The Hoorn Study

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Abstract

<i>Background and Aims:</i> To investigate associations between baseline serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels and myocardial structure and function after 8 years of follow-up in older Dutch subjects. <i>Methods:</i> We included 256 subjects of the Hoorn Study, a population-based cohort. They underwent a standardized 2-dimensional echocardiogram at baseline between 2000 and 2001, and again between 2007 and 2009. We studied the association of 25(OH)D quartiles with echocardiographic measures of the left ventricular mass index (LVMI), left ventricular systolic function and markers of diastolic function using linear regression analyses. <i>Results:</i> At baseline, subjects had a mean age of 67.4 ± 5.2 years and 41.4% had prior cardiovascular disease (CVD). Low serum 25(OH)D levels were only associated with higher LVMI at 8-year follow-up in subjects without prior CVD and in subjects with low kidney function (median estimated glomerular filtration rate ≤77.5 ml/min/1.73m<sup>2</sup>). The associations attenuated after adjustments for parathyroid hormone (PTH), which was associated with higher LVMI (g/m<sup>2.7</sup>) in subjects with low kidney function (regression coefficient highest quartile 6.3, 95% CI: 0.2, 12.5). <i>Conclusion:</i> This study showed no strong associations of 25(OH)D with myocardial structure and function. However, PTH - a possible modifiable mediator in the relation between 25(OH)D and myocardial structure - was positively associated with LVMI in subjects with low kidney function.