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Highlights from the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions

Vitamin D and heart disease, the effectiveness of external defibrillators and more from the Orlando, Fla., meeting

By Nathan Seppa

- More than 2 years ago

Vitamin D for the heart
Giving vitamin D to patients after they’ve survived a heart attack or a close call lowers their levels of two compounds implicated in heart disease. Yoav Arnson of Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, Israel, and colleagues identified 50 patients who had a heart attack or an episode of unstable angina — a cardiac red alert.