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Adjunct Vitamin D Therapy as a Means to Reduce the Disparity in Subclinical Target Organ Cardiac Damage among Vulnerable Hypertensive Patients

WSU Dataset

Alternate Title(s)

AdDReach

Authors

Phillip Levy

Description

The objective of this phase II/III randomized clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy of vitamin D therapy versus placebo in vitamin D-deficient African-Americans with hypertension, including investigating the relationship between vitamin D and cardiac damage (as identified on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging) in a vitamin D-deficient hypertensive patients without prior history of heart disease. Data include cardiac MRI and echocardiography data, lab results (e.g., vitamin D, CBC), and patient characteristics (e.g., vital signs, demographics, health insurance, education level, household income, hypertension drug and vitamin D treatment adherence, dietary intake, sun exposure).

Subject

Medicine & Health

Geographic Coverage

Detroit, Michigan

Timeframe

2011 - 2015

Access Rights

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