date:Mar 20, 2013
ciency among African-Americans may explain in part some of the racial disparity in blood pressure, said John P. Forman, M.D., M.Sc., lead author of the study and assistant professor of medicine in the Renal Division and Kidney Clinical Research Institute at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston.
Black Americans have higher rates of hypertension and lower levels of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol) than the rest of the U.S. population. Few studies have included enou