Vitamin D Supplementation Can Improve Heart Function in Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cardiomyopathy, Dilated

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02517814

HY-2015-06

Details and patient eligibility

About

Vitamin D deficiency could be a high risk for cardiovascular diseases. It has been recently reported that vitamin D deficiency is another cause of heart failure and cardiomyopathies. It was found that vitamin D supplementation improved the heart function. The purpose of this study is to evaluate patients with idiopathic cardiomyopathies and determine whether vitamin D supplementation in cases where there is a deficiency, improves heart functioning.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with idiopathic cardiomyopathy

Exclusion criteria

• Post heart surgery
• Congenital heart disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Patients with cardiomyopathy

Experimental group

Description:

Patients with vitamin D deficiency and cardiomyopathy will receive supplementation with vitamin D 400 units per day for 6 months.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D