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Young women with vitamin D deficiencies are three times more likely to have high blood pressure in middle age, in relation to those with normal levels of the vitamin, according to a new study by the American Heart Association in Chicago.

Younger women joined a growing list of people including men, who can develop high blood pressure at least partly due to insufficient vitamin D.

the Michigan researchers examined data from 559 women since 1992, finding that those with low vitamin D levels were more likely to have high blood pressure 15 years later.

“Our results indicate that vitamin D deficiency early may increase the long-term risk of hypertension in middle-aged women,” said Griffin Flojaune, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Read the rest of this entry »