Vitamin D Boosts Women Diabetics’ Health

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Vitamin D Boosts Women Diabetics’ Health
 

– Reported June 29, 2013
 

 

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – As recent research from Loyola University in Chicago suggests, women with type 2 diabetes can dramatically lower their blood pressure and improve their mood by taking vitamin D supplements. An added benefit is that women taking vitamin D in the study also lost a little weight as well.

Because diabetics are at a higher risk of vitamin D deficiency, researchers enrolled 46 women who had diabetes and insufficient blood levels of vitamin D. The participants were given weekly vitamin D supplements over six months. At the end of the study, the women’s scores on a depression symptom survey decreased by more than half. Their blood pressure also decreased, going from 140.4 mm Hg to 132.5 mm Hg, and participants lost an average of three pounds.

SOURCE: American Diabetes Association 73rd Scientific Sessions, June 2013