- Stroke Category highlights - includes post-stroke
- Post-Stroke depression is 3.5X more-likely if vitamin D deficient - meta-analysis - Aug 2024
- 20 Most-visited pages in the Stroke category in VitaminDWiki
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12 studies in both categories Depression and Stroke - Stroke is associated with categories: Cardiovascular 14, Cognitive 13, Hypertension 10, Depression 9, Intervention 7, Mortality 6, Diabetes 5, Skin - Dark 5, Virus 5, Injection 4, Vitamin D Receptor 4,
Stroke Category highlights - includes post-stroke
136 items in stroke category - see also Overview Stroke and vitamin D,
Overview Hypertension and Vitamin D Overview Cardiovascular and vitamin DStroke more likely if low Vitamin D
- Stroke 74% less likely if high vitamin D (7,295 women 20-50 years old) – July 2017
- Stroke is 13.5 X more likely if low vitamin D and high blood pressure – March 2015
- Ischemic stroke 17 X more likely if low vitamin D – April 2017
- Stroke is strongly associated with Calcification of cerebral arteries (perhaps low Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Mg…) – March 2018
- Ischemic Stroke 3X more likely if Vitamin D Receptor gene change (Fok 1) – Jan 2014
Post-Stroke worse if low Vitamin D
- Poor Acute Ischemic Stroke 4X more likely if low Vitamin D - Nov 2023
- Stroke risks increased if low Vitamin D: Death 3.6 X, recurrence 5.5 X – Meta-analysis Nov 2019
- Stroke outcome at 3 months was 3X worse if bad stroke and low vitamin D – Jan 2020
- Death after Ischemic Stroke 2.5 X more likely if less than 10 ng of Vitamin D – May 2019
- Vascular dementia (after strokes) 32X more likely in Hypertensives with low vitamin D – Oct 2015
- Depression following a stroke is 2.7 X more likely if low vitamin D – Sept 2018
- Stroke incidence not associated with low Vitamin D (but stroke outcome is) – Aug 2019
Post-Stroke better if add Vitamin D
- Post-stroke Vitamin D supplementation helped in 11 ways – May 2023
- Improved recovery from ischemic stroke with Vitamin D (300,000 IU injection) – RCT June 2018
- Better outcome following Ischemic stroke if injected with 600,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Feb 2017
- Ischaemic stroke – Vitamin D doubled survival (Injection followed by monthly 60,000 IU) – RCT Aug 2016
- Stroke patients need more than 2,000 IU of vitamin D (found this time in Japan) – RCT June 2019
Post-Stroke better if Vitamin D actually gets to cells
- Resveratrol fights Parkinson, Alzheimers, Diabetes, Cardiovascular, ALS, Stroke, etc.– Nov 2018
- Stroke rehabilitation (and prevention) requires Vitamin D actually getting to cells – March 2020
12 studies in both categories of Depression and Stroke This list is automatically updated
- 17 Ways to Cut Your Risk of Stroke, Dementia and Depression (Vitamin D cuts 10 of them) - April 2025
- Nerve cells and Vitamin D – many studies
- Water-soluble form of vitamins are needed for some health problems
- Post-stroke depression not reduced by 2,000 IU of vitamin D (not a surprise) – Nov 2021
- Depression is associated with stroke if low vitamin D or winter – Nov 2018
- Depression following a stroke is 2.7 X more likely if low vitamin D – Sept 2018
- Omega-3 and Vitamin D each treat many mental health problems - April 2018
- MAGNESIUM IN MAN - IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE – review 2015
- No longer depressed, but risk of stroke is still 1.7X higher (did not consider low vitamin D) – May 2015
- ALL of the top 10 health problems of women are associated with low vitamin D
- Post stroke depression 9X more likely if low vitamin D – Dec 2014
- Stroke patients with low vitamin D were 10X more likely to become depressed – Aug 2014
Post-Stroke depression is 3.5X more-likely if vitamin D deficient - meta-analysis - Aug 2024
Vitamin D Deficiency in the Acute Phase of Stroke May Predict Post-stroke Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology https://doi.org/10.1177/08919887241275044
It says PDF is behind a paywall, but also says that it is available via creative common liscnse
Yongjun Tan, PhD, Xiaojun Jing, MD, …, and Qin Yang, PhD https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4040-1661 zhanghuapro at hospital.cqmu.edu.cn+4To conduct the association between vitamin D levels in the acute phase of stroke and post-stroke depression (PSD) in stroke patients.
Methods
Five international databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Ovid MEDLINE(R), Cochrane Library) and one Chinese database (Wanfang Data) were searched for observational studies in any language reporting on PSD and vitamin D levels tested in the acute phase of stroke in stroke patients from inception to May 2024. Data extraction and study quality assessment were conducted by two authors independently. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of data were performed. The meta-analysis was registered in the PROSPERO database (CRD42023398581).Results
We included 7 studies containing 3537 participants in the systematic review and meta-analysis. All studies that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were conducted in China. Vitamin D levels in the acute phase of stroke were lower in PSD patients compared with non-PSD patients (weighted mean difference = −14.97 nmol/L; 95% confidence interval = −19.54, −10.40).
Stroke patients with vitamin D deficiency (<50 nmol/L) had an increased risk of PSD compared with stroke patients with vitamin D sufficiency (≥75 nmol/L) (odds ratio = 3.59; 95% confidence interval = 2.05, 6.27). However, the association between vitamin D insufficiency (50-75 nmol/L) and PSD were not statistically significant (odds ratio = 4.15; 95% confidence interval = 0.87, 19.78).Conclusion
Vitamin D deficiency in the acute phase of stroke may be a risk factor for PSD.
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- Stroke outcomes worse if high level of Iron - several studies
- Higher risk of Hypertension, Diabetes, and Stroke if near large body of water (microplastics) - March 2025
- More than 50% increase per decade: asthma, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, etc. - 2025
- 17 Ways to Cut Your Risk of Stroke, Dementia and Depression (Vitamin D cuts 10 of them) - April 2025
- 5X lower Cardiovascular death rate in regions consuming more fish and vegetables, (and lower obesity) – Dec 2023
- Nerve cells and Vitamin D – many studies
- Water-soluble form of vitamins are needed for some health problems
- Strokes are both prevented and treated by Vitamin D – July 2022
- Stroke and Vitamin D meta-analyses - many studies
- Hemorrhagic Stroke – increased risk if low vitamin D – July 2023
- Hemorrhagic stroke death reduced if add calcitriol (mice) – Aug 2024
- Vitamin D deficiency promotes intracranial aneurysm rupture (mice) – July 2024
- Cardiovascular Disease plus Stroke will cost the US a Trillon dollars annually by 2032 (Vitamin D not mentioned) – AHA June 2024
- Ischemic Stroke and Vitamin D - many studies
- Ischemic Stroke is 18% more likely if poor Vitamin D genes (unless take more Vitamin D) – Feb 2024
- Stroke 3 times more likely if dark skin woman has Hypertension before age 35 - Feb 2024
- Vitamin D is the best Vitamin to prevent a stroke - meta-analysis Jan 2024
- Low Vitamin D associated with CHD, stroke, death, etc, (Mendelian analhysis) - Dec 2021
- After stroke, 40% less likely to die if 400 mg of Magnesium daily - Oct 2023
- High Omega-3 reduced risk of Ischemic stroke by 18% - Dec 2023
- 8X increased risk of stroke if COVID vaccinated and catch COVID within 3 weeks – June 2023
- Vitamin K, cardiovascular health, and stroke - many studies
- Post-stroke Vitamin D supplementation helped in 11 ways – May 2023
- Inflammation of small blood vessels in the brain is associated with low vitamin D - April 2023
- Recurrent Stroke 5X more-likely if very low vitamin D - meta-analysis Feb 2023
- CYP2R1 gene reduces response to Vitamin D - many studies
- Ignoring dose size etc, meta-analysis concludes that Vitamin D does not help (stroke risk in this case) – Aug 2022
- Sleep quality 6X worse after stroke if low vitamin D – July 2022
- Stroke prevention and rehabilitation with vitamin D – July 2022
- Vitamin D also provides COVID Neuroprotection – April 2022
- COVID and CVD deadly pandemics share a risk factor: low vitamin D - April 2022
- How Vitamin D can fight cerebrovascular diseases (stroke, TIA, aneurysm) – March 2022
- Most COVID patients had sticky blood platelets (Omega-3 helps) - Dec 2021
- Elderly vaccinated for COVID were 2X more likely to die of ischemic stroke (2930 vs 1180 deaths)– Nov 2021
- Post-stroke fatigue cut in half by Vitamin D (just 600 IU daily in 3 months) – Nov 2021
- Post-stroke depression not reduced by 2,000 IU of vitamin D (not a surprise) – Nov 2021
- Stroke 22 percent more likely if low Vitamin D – meta-analysis July 2021
- Stroke patients getting weekly 50,000 IU Vitamin D did better – trial March 2021
- 1.3X higher risk of severe Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular problems if low Vitamin D (50 million people) – Dec 2020
- Vitamin D deficiency associated with increased risk of many health problems in 58,000,000 Americans - Nov 2020
- Inhaling Vitamin D nanoemulsion through nose gets lots more to the brain (mice) – July 2020
- UVB phototherapy (which increases Vitamin D and VDR) decreased risk of many heart and stroke problems – July 2020
- Resveratrol fights Parkinson, Alzheimers, Diabetes, Cardiovascular, ALS, Stroke, etc.– Nov 2018
- Stroke rehabilitation (and prevention) requires Vitamin D actually getting to cells – March 2020
- Stroke outcome at 3 months was 3X worse if bad stroke and low vitamin D – Jan 2020
- Stroke not prevented by just 2,000 IU of vitamin D plus 840 mg Omega-3 (VITAL) – Feb 2020
- Poor Ischemic stroke outcome (END) 2.6 X worse if low vitamin D – March 2019
- Stroke risks increased if low Vitamin D: Death 3.6 X, recurrence 5.5 X – Meta-analysis Nov 2019
- Blood clotting (Thrombosis) and low Vitamin D - many studies
- Stroke incidence not associated with low Vitamin D (but stroke outcome is) – Aug 2019
- Stroke patients need more than 2,000 IU of vitamin D (found this time in Japan) – RCT June 2019
- Increased health problems in blacks is similar to that of low vitamin D whites (John Singleton Stroke)
- Stroke in young adult increases risk of death by 5X during next 15 years – May 2019
- Strokes result in many years of disability (Vitamin D can help) GBD – March 2019
- Death after Ischemic Stroke 2.5 X more likely if less than 10 ng of Vitamin D – May 2019
- Half the number of hemorrhagic strokes if have lots of vitamin D (male rats) – Feb 2019
- Stroke recovery was aided by vitamin D and Progesterone (in rats) – Feb 2019
- More Cognitive Impairment after some types of stroke if low vitamin D - many studies
- Poor blood-brain barrier following stroke if low vitamin D (in rats) – RCT Feb 2019
- Depression is associated with stroke if low vitamin D or winter – Nov 2018
- Depression following a stroke is 2.7 X more likely if low vitamin D – Sept 2018
- Resveratrol improves health (Vitamin D receptor, etc.) - many studies
- Deep Vein Thrombosis during ischemic stroke rehab was 4.7 X more likely if low vitamin D – July 2018
- Following strokes, brain scans (MRI) 3X worse in those having low vitamin D – July 2018
- Improved recovery from ischemic stroke with Vitamin D (300,000 IU injection) – RCT June 2018
- Cerebral small vessel disease 2.5 X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – Sept 2018
- Stroke outcome 6.9 X worse if black and overweight (all three related via low vitamin D) – March 2018
- Omega-3 and Vitamin D each treat many mental health problems - April 2018
- Stroke is strongly associated with Calcification of cerebral arteries (perhaps low Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Mg…) – March 2018
- Ischemic Stroke risk reduced by 2.5 if have good level of vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2018
- Ischemic strokes half as large if had good level of vitamin D (mice) – Feb 2018
- Ischaemic Stroke has less impact in animals supplemented with Omega-3 – Jan 2018
- Migraines double the risk of strokes (both are associated with low vitamin D) – Jan 2018
- Vitamin D levels drop after ischemic stroke – Dec 2017
- Ischemic stroke 17 X more likely if low vitamin D – April 2017
- Stroke or coronary heart disease deaths 30% less likely if had taken more than 440 IU of vitamin D (900,000 patient years) – Jan 2018
- Strokes 3 X worse if low vitamin D – Jan 2018
- Large vessel Ischemic Stroke 13 X more likely if low vitamin D – Nov 2017
- Low vitamin D at time of stroke predicts 3 X more likely to die in a month (unless add Vit D) – Dec 2017
- Post stroke Calcitriol injections reduced edema and cell death (in rats) – Nov 2017
- Intracranial arterial calcification in 85 percent of ischemic strokes (Vitamin K and Vitamin D should help) – Oct 2017
- Ischemic stroke and low vitamin D – 3X higher risk of poor outcome, 6 X higher risk of a second stroke, Oct 2017
- Death within 2 years of surviving an ischemic stroke 10X less likely if high vitamin D – July 2017
- Stroke 74% less likely if high vitamin D (7,295 women 20-50 years old) – July 2017
- Stroke rate increased 85 percent in young women in large cities in the Western US in a decade – June 2017
- Retinal venous occlusions (eye stroke) 133 X more likely if low vitamin D – April 2017
- Risk of Ischemic Stroke doubles if take more than 1 gram of Calcium daily for years – May 2017
- Ischemic Stroke risk best predicted by Vitamin D, including PTH improves the prediction – Feb 2017
- Better outcome following Ischemic stroke if injected with 600,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Feb 2017
- Stroke rates increasing in youth and decreasing in elderly (perhaps due to Vitamin D) – Nov 2016
- Blacks with strokes having low Vitamin D were 3 times more likely to have cognitive impairment – Nov 2016
- Both Spinal cord injury and stroke with one side disabled have similar low levels of vitamin D – April 2016
- Ischaemic stroke – Vitamin D doubled survival (Injection followed by monthly 60,000 IU) – RCT Aug 2016
- Twice as likely to die during neurological critical care if low vitamin D – July 2016
- MAGNESIUM IN MAN - IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE – review 2015
- Major heart problems if have less than 15 ng of Vitamin D – Nov 2015
- Vascular dementia (after strokes) 32X more likely in Hypertensives with low vitamin D – Oct 2015
- Cardiovascular Disease and vitamin D – no proof yet – Sept 2015
- Stroke results in 8 years of cognitive decline (vitamin D not mentioned) May 2015
- Links between Vitamin D Deficiency and Cardiovascular Diseases – April 2015
- Stroke – many MRI measures are strongly associated with low vitamin D – Jan 2015
- Cardiovascular Diseases and Vitamin D – Review Feb 2015
- Ischemic Stroke with low vitamin D resulted in larger lesions – May 2015
- No longer depressed, but risk of stroke is still 1.7X higher (did not consider low vitamin D) – May 2015
- Stroke when less than 75 years old and with low vitamin D – 3X more likely to die in 1 year – June 2014
- Stroke is 13.5 X more likely if low vitamin D and high blood pressure – March 2015
- Second stroke 2X more likely if low vitamin D – Feb 2015
- ALL of the top 10 health problems of women are associated with low vitamin D
- Post stroke depression 9X more likely if low vitamin D – Dec 2014
- Ischemic Stroke 3X more likely if Vitamin D Receptor gene change (Fok 1) – Jan 2014
- Ischemic stroke 2X more likely if Vitamin D Receptor gene problem – Dec 2014
- Following a stroke, 10 ng less vitamin D associated with 2X more white matter hyperintensities – Nov 2014
- Stroke patients with low vitamin D were 10X more likely to become depressed – Aug 2014
- Stroke mortality 3X worse among seniors with less than 26 ng of vitamin D – June 2014
- Fewer white spots in MRI brain scans if had more vitamin D – Jan 2014
- Thrombosis (leads to stroke) worse with low vitamin D – Nov 2013
- Acute ischemic stroke 19 percent more likely if even lower vitamin D – Sept 2013
- Following a stroke, a hip fracture is 6X more likely if low vitamin D – July 2001
- Low vitamin D is a risk factor for vascular diseases in African Americans - Aug 2012
- Vitamin D associated with 50 percent less ischemic stroke – meta-analysis Aug 2012
- Stroke
- Cerebrovascular disease 40 percent less likely if high level of vitamin D – meta-analysis Sept 2012
- Moderate and severe strokes 2X associated with low vitamin D – 2012
- 50 percent fewer strokes with vitamin D, even though ignored dose size – meta-analysis March 2012
- 100 mg more Magnesium in water associated with 8 percent reduction in stroke – Feb 2012
- Twice as many fatal strokes among whites who were low on vitamin D – Jan 2012
- Much higher death rate 10 years after TIA – Nov 2011 – vitamin D might help
- Macular Degeneration increases risk of hemorrhagic stroke by 6X – July 2011
- 80 percent recent increase in Strokes following pregnancy - July 2011
- 5X fewer hip fractures from Parkinson – Alzheimer – Stroke with enough sun – June 2011
- Overview Stroke and vitamin D
- Strokes might be treated as well as prevented by vitamin D – Jan 2011
- Too much and too little Calcium both increase death after strokes – Jan 2011
- Only vitamin D helped prevent falls after stroke – July 2010
- Stroke patients show dearth of vitamin D – 2005
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12 studies in both categories Depression and Stroke This list is automatically updated
- 17 Ways to Cut Your Risk of Stroke, Dementia and Depression (Vitamin D cuts 10 of them) - April 2025
- Nerve cells and Vitamin D – many studies
- Water-soluble form of vitamins are needed for some health problems
- Post-stroke depression not reduced by 2,000 IU of vitamin D (not a surprise) – Nov 2021
- Depression is associated with stroke if low vitamin D or winter – Nov 2018
- Depression following a stroke is 2.7 X more likely if low vitamin D – Sept 2018
- Omega-3 and Vitamin D each treat many mental health problems - April 2018
- MAGNESIUM IN MAN - IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE – review 2015
- No longer depressed, but risk of stroke is still 1.7X higher (did not consider low vitamin D) – May 2015
- ALL of the top 10 health problems of women are associated with low vitamin D
- Post stroke depression 9X more likely if low vitamin D – Dec 2014
- Stroke patients with low vitamin D were 10X more likely to become depressed – Aug 2014
Stroke is associated with categories: Cardiovascular 14, Cognitive 13, Hypertension 10, Depression 9, Intervention 7, Mortality 6, Diabetes 5, Skin - Dark 5, Virus 5, Injection 4, Vitamin D Receptor 4,
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