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Intermountain Medical Center

Vit D

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The stress of open-heart surgery significantly reduces patients' vitamin D levels, but aggressive supplementation with vitamin D3, just before and after surgery, can completely eliminate the observed drop in vitamin D, researchers have found.

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Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute

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