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# Vitamin D deficiency linked to elevated risk of cardiovascular disease
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/vitamin_d_deficiency_cardiovascular_disease_death_1120130842/
- Published: 2013-11-20T21:41:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:26:43.000Z
- Description: Greek researchers followed 252 coronary artery disease patients averaging 72 years old, 88% of them vitamin D deficient. Those patients were seven times as likely to die of cardiovascular causes, though the authors call for interventional studies to confirm.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Vitamins, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Wednesday Nov 20, 2013 (foodconsumer.org) -- In European Hear Journal, a study shows that patients with coronary artery disease who were vitamin D deficient were much more likely to suffer cardiovascular events including death, compared with those who had vitamin D sufficiency.

G. Siasos and colleagues from University of Athens Medical School, Hippokration General Hospital in Athens, Greece followed 252 patients at a mean age of 72 with coronary artery disease for 3 to 36 months.

Of the study population, 88% suffered vitamin D deficiency and 12% had vitamin D sufficiency. The researchers found that those who had vitamin D deficiency were 7 times as likely as those who had vitamin D sufficiency to die from cardiovascular diseases or events.

The study concluded "Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in CAD patients. Importantly, vitamin D deficiency is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcome in this high risk population a finding that must be further evaluated by interventional studies." (David Liu, PHD)