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Young women, white and vitamin D deficiency is known to have hypertension risk 3 times higher than those who had vitamin D levels to normal. According to American researchers.

Researchers from Michigan to test 559 young women since 1992, and found women with low vitamin D levels tended to have hypertensive disease in 15 years later, in the year 2007.

“We want to show that lack of vitamin D when they were young can be bad in the long run, namely hypertension, especially in middle-aged women,” said Griffin Flojaune from the University of Michigan School of Public Health as reported by Reuters on Thursday (24/9/2009).

Vitamin D can be made by the body from sunlight, fatty fish, fortified milk (penamabahan substance) and food supplements. Vitamin D is very good for forming bones and teeth strong and healthy.

Because vitamin D deficiency result in hypertension, then it also triggered the stroke, heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases. Even the risk of cancer, immune system disorders and inflammatory diseases (inflammation) also haunt those less vitamin D.

Researchers selected respondents aged 24 years to 44 years or the average age of 38 years when the study first began. Each year, researchers checked the levels of vitamin D in the blood of the respondents, and at the end of 2007 study respondents measured systolic levels.

The study, funded by the U.S. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases have found more than 10 percent of women who experience a deficiency (lack) of vitamin D at the time of his youth proved to have hypertension in 2007.

According to statistics, almost half of the world population has vitamin D levels are low. Apart from the food factor, it’s also because people now spend more time indoors, so not getting sunlight.

If 15 years later you do not want to get these diseases, there is a good idea to eat fatty fish, milk, and the balance of time in and out of the room to get vitamin D from sunlight.