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# Got hypertension? Use vitamin D!
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/got_hypertension_use_vitamin_d_240920090800/
- Published: 2009-09-24T19:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:58:03.000Z
- Description: A review in Nature Reviews Cardiology by S. Pilz and colleagues concludes vitamin D sufficiency promotes lower arterial blood pressure, though not every trial agreed. The authors suggest supplementing patients with hypertension whose 25-hydroxyvitamin D falls below target.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Vitamins, Nutrition, Vitamin D, Hypertension, #vivvo-import

Taking vitamin D supplements may help control hypertension or lower blood pressure, a review article published in the [Oct 2009 issue of Nature reviews Cardiology](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19687790?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed%5FResultsPanel.Pubmed%5FDefaultReportPanel.Pubmed%5FRVDocSum&ref=foodconsumer.org) suggests.

S. Pilz and colleagues from Medical University of Graz in Austria systematically reviewed research on the effect of vitamin D on high blood pressure and said vitamin D supplementation may help people with hypertension.  

Pilz et al. say in their report that observational data indicate that vitamin D is involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease and arterial hypertension.

Vitamin D affects blood pressure though a number of physiological functions including renoprotection, suppression of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, effects on vascular cells and calcium metabolism, according to the authors.  

Clinical trial results showed that vitamin D sufficiency promotes lowering of arterial blood pressure although not all studies came to the same conclusion.  

The antihypertensive effect of vitamin D appears to be particularly significant in people with high blood pressure.  

Pilz and colleagues believe that vitamin D supplements should be given to patients with hypertension and 25-hydrovitamin D levels below target values.  

Dr. John Cannell, vitamin D expert and president of [Vitamin D Council ](http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/?ref=foodconsumer.org)suggests that people need to maintain vitamin D level at 50 to 70 ng per mL year round to avoid a variety of diseases.

By David Liu davidl at foodconsumer dot org