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.

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