MURRAY \u2014 A new study from Intermountain Health suggests vitamin D could play a bigger role in heart health than many people realize.<\/p>\n
Researchers found that patients who received targeted vitamin D3 supplementation after a heart attack were far less likely to have a repeat heart attack. The results were presented at the 2025 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.<\/p>\n
“Vitamin D has been an area that our cardiovascular research department has been interested in for a long time,” said Dr. Heidi May, a cardiovascular epidemiologist at Intermountain Health and principal investigator of the study.<\/p>\n
The clinical trial, known as the TARGET-D trial, followed 630 heart attack patients over several years. Researchers regularly checked participants’ vitamin D levels and adjusted doses when needed. At the start of the study, they found that a large majority of the heart attack patients already had low vitamin D levels.<\/p>\n
“About 90% of the patients needed some type of<\/strong> supplementation,” May said.<\/p>\n Low vitamin D is especially common in Utah, where higher elevations and less winter sunlight can make levels drop.<\/p>\n Instead of giving everyone the same dose, researchers took a more tailored approach: regularly checking blood levels and adjusting vitamin D3 to get patients into a healthy range. Patients were divided into two groups: one received the targeted treatment, while the other did not.<\/p>\n That personalized approach made a significant difference. Patients whose vitamin D levels were actively managed cut their risk of having a second heart attack in half.<\/p>\n “It was quite remarkable,” May said.<\/p>\n But doctors stress this isn’t about running to the store and loading up on supplements. Vitamin D needs vary from person to person, so they recommend talking with your physician before making any changes.<\/p>\n “We would suggest having a personalized conversation with their own clinician, and based on what their level is, get supplementation for their needs,” May said.<\/p>\n Researchers now hope to expand the study to see whether this same targeted approach could help reduce the risk of other heart problems as well.<\/p>\n \n The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MURRAY \u2014 A new study from Intermountain Health suggests vitamin D could play a bigger role in heart…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":506028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[419,418,210,421,420,425,50,1182,422,423,159,62,399,314,67,132,68,424,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-506027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-classifieds","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-homes","12":"tag-jobs","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nutrition","16":"tag-radio","17":"tag-salt-lake","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-television","21":"tag-traffic","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-utah","26":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115870571150266924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}