# Low vitamin D and increased deaths

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Podcast: [Dr. John Campbell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784)
Published: 2026-09-05T12:00:00+00:00
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Lower levels of vitamin D, higher rates of death Association of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Adult Patients With Existing Cardiovascular Disease https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496747/ Observational study, non-interventional Background Vitamin D, lower levels, common in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) Study of patients with existing CVD Prospectively examine the associations of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations with, All-cause mortality and, cause-specific mortality Methods N = 37,079 patients with CVD from the UK Biobank study From a prospective cohort of half a million, aged 40–69 years https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk CVD Coronary heart disease Atrial fibrillation Heart failure Stroke Results Among 37,079 patients with CVD at baseline, 57.5% were vitamin D deficient Deficient, 25[OH]D less than 50 nmol/L (less than 20ng/ml) Median follow-up of 11.7 years Deaths that occurred = 6,319 total 2,161 deaths from CVD 2,230 deaths from cancer 623 deaths from respiratory disease 1,305 other-cause deaths Non-linear inverse associations For all-cause mortality Cancer mortality Respiratory disease mortality Other-cause mortality That is deaths went up as vitamin D levels went down (P-non-linearity less than 0.01) Approximately linear inverse associations for CVD That is deaths went up as vitamin D levels went down (P-non-linearity = 0.074) Among CVD patients with vitamin D deficiency For every 10 nmol/L increment in serum 25(OH)D concentrations, There was an associated 12% reduced risk for all-cause mortality There was an associated 9% reduced risk for CVD mortality. In patients with vitamin D deficiency Per 10 nmol/L increase in serum 25(OH)D levels, was associated with a lower r…

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