Vitamin D deficiency increases poor brain function after cardiac arrest by sevenfold
Monday, October 20, 2014 - 12:34
in Health & Medicine
Patients with vitamin D deficiency were more likely to have a poor neurological outcome or die after sudden cardiac arrest than those who were not deficient. Nearly one-third of the patients who were deficient in vitamin D had died 6 months after their cardiac arrest, whereas all patients with sufficient vitamin D levels were still alive.